Somerset-Bath-1870 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23305

Map Date:

? 1870

Repository reference:

Bath Library Russel 2, p.87

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:

'New map of Bath published expressly for the Post Office Bath Directory by William Lewis, 6, Corridor, Bath.'

Comments on map:

Rather similar to Exeter 23301, but covers a wider area. Overprinted divisions are mysterious, as though for an atlas. No dating available: '1870' is guesswork, but presumably it is rather earlier than the directory map of 1878 [Exeter 23301].

Scale:

1:9600

Map-maker:

Hicks & Isaac, Surveyors, Bath [authors], William Lewis, 6 Corridor, Bath [eng, pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

58.8 x 44.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries

Colouring:

boundaries, Reference system: Overprinted with divisions in red, twelve of 3.55 x 2.75 ins, six more of 7.1 x ?.

Road names:

partly

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

dispensaries, hospitals

Education and academic:

schools

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

Bath Library Chapman maps [1864-5?]; Bath Library Russel 2 p.87 [1870?].

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Gardens:

nurseries

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa

Parkland:

public parks

Waterbodies:

shown

Commons:

shown

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1882-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560