Suffolk-Lowestoft-1831 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20618

Map Date:

1831

Repository reference:

Lowestoft Library: Archives [no pressmark]

Historic county:

Suffolk

Town name:

Lowestoft

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TM548933

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TM 4890

Map title:

'Map of the parish of Lowestoft in the County of Suffolk 1831'.

Comments on map:

Photocopy of larger map, apparently by Richard Barnes, and evidently reduced. 'The town' not mapped in detail: elsewhere fields are named and numbered, and acreages owners and given, and the map has a 'country' rather than a 'town' bias. Scale and dimensions from photocopy: may be from a 1:2376, 107 x 150 cm, waiting conservation.

Scale:

1:7920*

Map-maker:

[? Richard Barnes [author].]

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

49 x 44

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, water, owners

Road names:

inside built-up area only

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted.

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours, lighthouses, misc: Engine House.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively, (pictorial): Only Anglican pictorial.

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

Lowestoft Library: Archives [no pressmark].

Industry:

ship yards

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Rural ownerships].

Commons:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560