Surrey-Guildford-1835 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18954

Map Date:

20.8.1835

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] T72/13

Historic county:

Surrey

Town name:

Guildford

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU995495

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 9845

Map title:

'Map of the borough of Guildford as determined by the commissioners appointed by the honourable the Commons House of Parliament. 1835.'

Comments on map:

Note bottom left of population of borough (3813), and number of voters in each parish (593) in 4 parishes, and of who the first members were, returned under the new system in 1833.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

G. Kemp, Land Surveyor, London [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

48.3 x 38.6

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals: One is Abbotts Hospital.

Education and academic:

schools

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Parish: [Old and new boroughs].

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] T72/13.

Industry:

food/drink, metallurgical processing

Gardens:

shown, nurseries

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Post and telegraphs:

semaphore

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1868-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560