Somerset-Wincanton-1838 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

12182

Map Date:

1838

Repository reference:

Somerset RO C/SS 1

Historic county:

Somerset

Town name:

Wincanton

Map type:

Rating

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST712286

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 6931

Comments on map:

The map is described as surveyed in 1838, 'pursuant to an order of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales, dated the 15th day of September 1837'. [The map is in a bad state, and has been declared unfit for production.]

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

W. Norris and T.F. Dickinson [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

298 x 429

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, water, boundaries

Road names:

inside built-up area only

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

Somerset RO Wincanton C/SS 1.

Waterbodies:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1884-5

1:2500

1:10,560