Somerset-Bath-1898 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21413

Map Date:

12.1898

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 31.b.50

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:

'Historic map of Bath. Indicating the sites of public buildings and residences of famous personages connected with the history of the city. Prepared by T. Sturge Cottrell'.

Comments on map:

Letterpres with names, in numerical order corresponding to the map, down the left, and addresses down the right, and historic buildings at the bottom: better for identifying places as one walks around than, say, finding out immediately when Dr Johnson or Jane Austen roosted. 'Revised to December 1898.'

Scale:

1:5280

Map-maker:

T. Sturge Cottrell [author], Bath Chronicle & Bath Pictorial Offices [pr, pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

31.5 x 42.0 [map: 41.7 x 50.7 overall].

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

other: Site of city wall.

Colouring:

Buildings, water, other: Beige buildings; red dots and numbers for the residences, and red line of city wall.

Road names:

generally: Including some superseded names, e.g. '(Frog Lane) New Bond St'.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges

Recreation and sports venues:

recreation grounds

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

CUL Maps.84.89.1 [1896: historic houses]; Bath Library, CUL Maps.84.89.2, Somerset RO A/APN 3/3 [1898: historic map]; BOL C17:70 Bath (8) [1899]; BLML Maps 31.b.50 [1899];

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations: 'Line opened 1840 & 1841'.

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, public halls, theatres, etc, museums

Parkland:

public parks

Antiquities:

Numerous, of all periods: including sites of gates.

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

learned societies, unspecified

Relief:

cliffs

Ordnance Survey's

1882-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560