Somerset-Watchet-1838 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

12211

Map Date:

1838

Repository reference:

Somerset RO DD/SAS C/212

Historic county:

Somerset

Town name:

Watchet, Williton

Map type:

Rating

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST072432

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 0242

Comments on map:

St Decumans parish map: from Somerset Archaeological Society collection; origin uncertain, but it may be significant that the workhouse is area number 1. Total acreage of parish is given, bottom left. The Norton Fitzwarren

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

Danl Horwood, Land Surveyor, Bristol [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

253 x 199

Number of parts:

4

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

Somerset RO DD/SAS C/212 [St Decumans map 1838].

Waterbodies:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1886

1:2500

1:10,560

1886

1:2500

1:10,560