Somerset-Radstock-1867 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23438

Map Date:

1867

Repository reference:

Somerset RO DD/WG

Historic county:

Somerset

Town name:

Radstock

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST689549

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 7455

Map title:

'Plan of the manor of Radstock in the County of Somerset belonging to the ... Dowager Countess Waldegrave 1867'.

Comments on map:

Fields numbered: reference at DD/WG Box 12. Signed by Batey in May 1869: is 1867 the survey date and 1869 the drawing date?

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

G.J. Batey, Radstock Colliery Office, Bath [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

128 x 221

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, owners

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

Somerset RO DD/WG

Railways:

routes, named, rails, passenger stations, industrial tramways/waggonways

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls

Miscellaneous:

Extensive use of gothic lettering: display rather than clarity. Only the green tree-symbols are really clear.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary for location purposes

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits: [Collieries mapped in detail].

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

relict extraction: Colliery waste.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:2500

1:10,560