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Somerset-Taunton-1840

CBTM:
21398
Map Date:
1840
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 2140 (6)
Historic county:
Somerset
Town name:
Taunton
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
ST227247
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
ST 2324
Map title:
'Plan of Taunton from actual survey by John Wood. 1840.'
Comments on map:
Usual Wood style, with table of post miles, top left, but no population data.
Scale:
1:2376*
Map-maker:
John Wood [sv], Turner & Co., Edinburgh [lith].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
76.3 x 94.0
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
boundaries: This copy also has roads and water coloured.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly: Including Flook House
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised: Public, etc, buildings are lighter-hatched than 'ordinary' ones.
Turnpikes:
shown
Canals:
shown, offices
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
misc: Register Office.
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, infirmaries, t, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
bazaars, markets: [Horse & Carriage Bazaar].
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 2140(6), Somerset RO DD/SAS C/212 [original]; Somerset Studies, Somerset RO T/PH/SRO [? photocopy]; BL X.805/1050, BOL G.A.Som. c.23 [1977: in Robin Bush, The book of Taunton, Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1977]; BOL G.A.Som.4o 254 [1983: in R. Bush, Jeboult's Taunton: a Victorian retrospect, Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1983].
Industry:
engineering, food/drink, misc: Seed Shop, Marble works.
Railways:
projected or otherwise unbuilt lines: No station.
Gardens:
shown, nurseries: [Nurseries have distinctive ornament].
Leisure and entertainment:
public halls, theatres, etc
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks, newspaper offices
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: Away from closely built-up part.
Road transport:
wagon office
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
mechanics institutes
Relief:
prominent hills
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
shown, coffee houses, misc: Wood's usual exhaustive style: Gin Shops, [one coffee-house].
Miscellaneous religious group:
Convent.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1886
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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