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Suffolk-Gorleston-1881

CBTM:
18196
Map Date:
1881
Repository reference:
Norfolk RO AWA 19/1/1-23
Historic county:
Suffolk
Town name:
Gorleston
Map type:
Sanitary
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TG526050
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TG 5207
Map title:
'Map of Gorleston Southtown and Cobholm Island from Surveys made for the Great Yarmouth Sanitary Authority by J.W. Cockrill Assistant Surveyor 1881.'
Comments on map:
Evidently a companion to Exeter 18197. Title sheet, index and reference sheet (= sheet 1), and sheets 2-22; laid out mostly as landscape-sheets, with some portraits, but scales and writing such that they can all be handled as portrait sheets. Sheets 21 and 22 were added later to the Key Plan (as evidenced by the way the neat line has been scraped to fit them in, and only show new roads which postdate survey for Ordnance Survey 1:2500).
Scale:
1:528
Map-maker:
J.W. Cockrill [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
95 x 65 [x 23] [standard size 36.0 x 24.0 inches within neat line].
Number of parts:
23
Legends:
general legend: Reference sheet is divided into sections: Scales (including index at 1/12 of the map, i.e. 1:6336), Drains (in red, with diameters and type: Egg Shaped Brick Drains, 3'6'' E.S.B.D.; Circular Brick Drains, 2'0'' C.B.D.; Circular Pipe Drains, 1'3'' C.P.D.; Egg Shaped Pipe Drains, 2'0'' E.S.P.D.); Depths of Drains, (in feet and inches, written in blue at right angles to the sewer), being 'from the surface to the invert inside drain'; 'Colouring', ('Dwelling Houses and appurtenances connected therewith', (carmine: o for both Privy and W.C.); 'Buildings not used as Dwelling Houses' (grey-blue); Index to the Sheets, (numbered 1 to 20: e.g. 7 Cottage belonging to U.S.A. (Datum) [duly indicated by bench-mark symbol on map]; 12 Barking Fishery P.H. and Independent Chapel).
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, utilities
Road names:
generally: A few are just 'road'.
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, public buildings emphasised, archways, bay windows, steps to buildings: Undescribed hatched buildings.
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, misc: Life Boat Sheds, Yard of the Harbour Commissioners.
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs, sewers, sewage disposal: Sewer diameters and depths, outfalls; reservoir lime green.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
police
Defence and military:
barracks
Education and academic:
schools
Known copies of map:
Norfolk RO AWA 19/1/1-23.
Industry:
engineering, misc: Most industry can only be inferred from building shapes.
Railways:
passenger stations
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
Oddfellows
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Ferries:
ferry
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
pounds/pinfolds
Stated measuerments:
bench marks, other: Sewer diameters and depths, in feet and inches; spot heights to 0.01 foot, toll gate cottage 20.00 datum [with Ordnance Survey benchmark symbol]. Levels in black: they 'represent that height in feet and decimals above Datum which is 20 feet below the door step of the Cottage belonging to the Urban Sanitary Authority lately used as a Toll Gate House'.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1882-3
1:2500
1:10,560
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