Suffolk-Ipswich-1870 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22178

Map Date:

1870

Repository reference:

Suffolk RO [Ipswich] C.14/12, DA 1/1/4

Historic county:

Suffolk

Town name:

Ipswich

Map type:

boundaries

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TM165445

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TM 1646

Map title:

'Borough of Ipswich. 1870.'

Comments on map:

Main record applies to C.14/12, which has Alger's attribution below scale. DA 1/1/4 has two manuscript versions with similar title: what appears to be the earlier version is all in black except for red border and some parish-tinting, 39.0 x 51.0, and omits some details present on the other two, e.g. Asylum SE of California; what is probably the later version is 39.2 x 52.2 and has, in common with the litho version, some detail in red, presumably to indicate more recent building. All three evidently derive from the earlier Liberties map [Exeter 22177], but without the pictorial windmills and ecclesiastical oddities; some of the black building is additional to that shown on the Liberties map. An oddity is that no railways are shown. The record office map-list says that these maps were prepared in connexion with petition for separating outlying districts of the borough: presumably those which are tinted? Although only the litho version mentions Alger, stylistically all three are from the same hand, and the two manuscript versions are stylistically suggestive of Alger's tithe and enclosure mapping.

Scale:

1:19,008

Map-maker:

Cleer S. Alger, Litho: Diss [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

52.7 x 60.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

boundaries, other: Some detail in red; outer boundary and some outer parish areas hand-tinted.

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

incompletely shown: Churches in built-up area indicated by crosses.

Defence and military:

barracks

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, misc: Asylum.

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Parish, boundary markers: [Outer parishes only; a few boundary turns indicated by pictorial vegetation].

Known copies of map:

East Suffolk RO DA 1/1/4 [two manuscript maps]; East Suffolk RO C.14/12 [printed version].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Parkland:

public parks, private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Road mileages.

Miscellaneous religious group:

Convent.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated

Ordnance Survey's

1880-1

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560