Somerset-Weston super Mare-1853 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18530

Map Date:

1853

Repository reference:

Somerset Record Office DD/X/ME 10/1 C/692

Historic county:

Somerset

Town name:

Weston super Mare

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST320613

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 3261

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Weston-super-Mare, in the county of Somerset.'

Comments on map:

'Reference and Characteristic Remarks' below the title is really an advertisement for the town, which indicates that the date of the map is 1853. This copy has had later building neatly added.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

Joseph White, The Crescent, Weston Super Mare [author], Standidge & Co. Litho. Old Jewry, London [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

54.8 x 66.7

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, land-use, decorative: Seems to be colour-printed.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised: Some uninfilled buildings appears to be projected rather than real.

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Disinfecting Tanks.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Including Site for Chapel of Ease.

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Bath Library, Somerset RO DD/X/ME 10/1 C/692.

Industry:

bricks/tiles, furniture/pottery, abbatoirs: 'Public Slaughter House'.

Railways:

routes, named, turntables, rails, passenger stations

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Encampment.

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom right: 'A sketch of the town taken from near the Strand House'.

Relief:

prominent hills

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Post and telegraphs:

flagstaff

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Other land-uses & land-cover:

misc: Land not to be built on.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1883-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560