Suffolk-Southwold-1839 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18354

Map Date:

[1839]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 5210(10)

Historic county:

Suffolk

Town name:

Southwold

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TM507764

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TM 4972

Map title:

'Southwold.'

Comments on map:

For Wake's History of Southwold, 1839.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

J.G. Lenny [sv], James Wyld, Charing Cross East [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

32.0 x 27.0 [overall: plate 36.1 x 30.5].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Defence and military:

coastguard

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 5210(10), BL 10360.c.17, BOL G.A.Suffolk 8o 15, CUL VIII.5.48, East Suffolk RO MC 7/54, R.16325 [original]; Lowestoft RO AR 808/5/15 [photo]; [1985: reduced scale, in David Smith, Victorian maps of The British Isles, London: Batsford, 1985, p.73].

Industry:

salt

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls, libraries/newsrooms, misc: Bath Rooms; 'Cassino (Public News Room)'.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Landowners and occupiers:

corporation/municipal

Waterbodies:

shown

Commons:

shown: [Various 'Greens'].

Geodetic notes:

Below title is latitude & longitude (52.20 north, 1.40 east).

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1882

1:2500

1:10,560