Somerset-Bath-1840 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21408

Map Date:

? 1840

Repository reference:

CUL Maps.BB.84.83.2

Historic county:

Somerset

Town name:

Bath

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST750647

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 7468

Map title:

'A new and correct plan of the City of Bath.'

Comments on map:

Dated '1835' by CUL, but includes Royal Victoria Park and line of Great Western Railway, without station, the latter an obvious addition. For Gibbs's Bath Visitants.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

S. Gibbs, 5 Union St, Bath [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

27.8 x 25.3

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Canals:

shown, offices, wharf

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

dispensaries, hospitals, workhouses, misc: Society's Office for the Suppression of Vagrants. Workhouse is still 'Poor House'.

Education and academic:

schools

Public/administrative boundaries:

misc: City.

Known copies of map:

Bath Library, BL 10351.a.61(3) [1835] [reference to 1883 publication at same pressmark may be error]; Bath Library [1836]; Bath Library [1837]; Bath Library [1840]; CUL Maps.BB.84.83.2 [with GWR in outline]; Bath Library [1845]; Bath Library, CUL Maps.D.84.85.1 [1850]; Bath Library ['c.1854'].

Railways:

CN

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, theatres, etc, misc: Rooms.

Parkland:

public parks

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

learned societies

Borders:

keyboard type: Distinctive double-keyboard.

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1882-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560