Suffolk-Lowestoft-1830
CBTM:
20617
Map Date:
1830
Repository reference:
Lowestoft Library: Archives [no pressmark]
Historic county:
Suffolk
Town name:
Lowestoft
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TM548933
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TM 4890
Map title:
'Plan of the country in the vicinity. 1830.'
Comments on map:
Dyeline copy of a transcript: bottom left 'July 1947', bottom right 'Traced from Bill of sale prepared by R. Barnes Surveyor (1830), by permission.' Style of building generalisation reminiscent of Dewhirst & Nicholls a few years later. As this seems to be a sale-map, lithography has been assumed.
Scale:
1:15,840
Map-maker:
[Richard Barnes [author].]
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
40.3 x 29.0
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
roads, water
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Water transport infrastructure:
harbours, lighthouses: [The Sea Lock].
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Known copies of map:
Lowestoft Library: Archives [no pressmark].
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Intended road.
Stated measuerments:
soundings: Offshore, in feet.
Ordnance Survey's
1883
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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