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Somerset-Weston super Mare-1852

CBTM:
23443
Map Date:
? 1852
Repository reference:
Somerset RO DD/X/ME 10/2
Historic county:
Somerset
Town name:
Weston super Mare
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
ST320613
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
ST 3261
Map title:
'Plan of the parish and township of Weston Super Mare.'
Comments on map:
The map looks like a less decorative preliminary version, with much less text and no projected building, of the published map [Exeter 18530].
Scale:
1:4752
Map-maker:
Joseph White, Surveyor [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
110.0 x 72.0
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, general highlighting of district: Town area tinted light green, remainder of parish tinted light pink.
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, public buildings emphasised
Sanitary and utility information:
water works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Evident from cross-hatching: unnamed.
Known copies of map:
Somerset RO DD/X/ME 10/2 C/692.
Railways:
routes, named, rails
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1883-4
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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