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Suffolk-Ipswich-1849

CBTM:
22175
Map Date:
1849
Repository reference:
Suffolk RO [Ipswich] C.14/10
Historic county:
Suffolk
Town name:
Ipswich
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TM165445
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TM 1646
Map title:
'Detailed plan of Ipswich in the county of Suffolk.'
Comments on map:
By title is note of latitude and longitude and 'Plan completed from survey MDCCCXLIX'; letterpress at bottom inclkudes notes of Datum Line (3 feet above sill of dock), tide ranges, heights of reservoirs, statistics of number of houses and population, income of East Suffolk hospital and of charities, statistics of wet dock, and list of churches and public buildings. Although some of this might be suited to a 'display' or a 'reference' map, the 'feel' of it is of a map prepared primarily for sanitary or administrative purposes.
Scale:
1:2160
Map-maker:
Edward E. White [sv], Cowell's Anastatic Press, Old Butter Market, Ipswich [pr].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
132 x 125
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
Buildings, boundaries
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use: Churchyards light green.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished: Legend shows Churches [black], Private Houses [red], Substantial Outbuildings [diagonal hatched], Temporary ditto [horizontal or vertical hatching], Sheds or Open Buildings [dashes], Conservatories [dotting]: treatment suggests a 'sanitary' purpose for the map.
Mills:
windmills: One by station is shown by double circle with square inside: evidently a post-mill.
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, quays, wharfs: Also Lock Master's house.
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Churches in gothic with dedication; 'Chapel'.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools: Grammar School has Play Ground.
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish
Known copies of map:
CUL Maps.bb.18.G.121 [1848: specimen of plan, 65 x 49 cm]; East Suffolk RO HD.12:53/3/1, X6/11/2.1, HD.477/11 [1849], East Suffolk RO X6/11/22 [1849, extended on S in 1855], East Suffolk RO HD 477/12 [1849, extended on S and E by Peter Bruff 1857-8]; BL Add MSS 31323, n.3 [MS version, 1853+].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, engineering, food/drink, ship yards, oil/soap etc, paper/print, furniture/pottery, timber, misc: Carriage Factory, Coke Ovens.
Railways:
routes, passenger stations: Including Temporary Station [at future Halifax goods station].
Gardens:
shown, market gardens
Leisure and entertainment:
public halls
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners, industrial owners: [Owners outside built-up part].
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
mechanics institutes
Borders:
distance-graduated type, keyboard type: Graduated by tens of yards: interesting fusion of the two methods.
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Proposed streets.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Arms and heraldry:
municipal: [Very large: above dedication].
Dedicee of map:
Inhabitants of Ipswich.
Stated measuerments:
spot heights: In round feet: datum is 3 feet above sill of dock.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1880-1
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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