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Somerset-Watchet-1862

CBTM:
23442
Map Date:
1862
Repository reference:
Somerset RO DD/WY(c)
Historic county:
Somerset
Town name:
Watchet
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
ST072432
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
ST 0242
Map title:
'Plan of the town of Watchet Somerset'.
Comments on map:
Areas numbered: some listed as leasehold, top left: no reference to others. Not much text.
Scale:
1:792
Map-maker:
W. Collins [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
113.0 x 83.5
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
roads, water
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
harbours, misc: Breakwater, Town Slip.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Known copies of map:
Somerset RO DD/WY(c) [St Decumans/Watchet map 1862], DD/WY(d) [another copy].
Industry:
lime/cement: Implied by shapes.
Railways:
routes, named, rails, passenger stations
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1886
1:2500
1:10,560
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