Surrey-Guildford-1839 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21260

Map Date:

1.10.1839

Repository reference:

Surrey RO M/418

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:

'... survey and plan of the borough of Guildford... as enlarged under the 3 & 4 of Willm. 4. Cap.64...'

Comments on map:

No mention of lithographer, but as printed from four plates may have been on the 'inside'. Notes bottom left on acreages of old borough and constituent parishes, incorporated 1256, and new borough, as enlarged 1822, and bottom right of boundary of borough according to 3 & 4 Wm IV, cap.64. Yet another large-scale map which is light on text.

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

Charles Witherby, Surveyor and Land Agent, Guildford, Surrey [sv, pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

132 x 124

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, workhouses: [Hospital is Abbot's].

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Parish: [Old borough included: intended to be coloured (absent from this copy)].

Known copies of map:

Surrey RO G25/12 [misdated 1835], Surrey RO BR/WB/1 [with water mains added 1851].

Industry:

engineering

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Antiquities:

Ruins of Castle.

Waterbodies:

shown, misc: Mill Pond.

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Towing Path along river.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Arms and heraldry:

municipal: [Hanging from north pointer].

Cemeteries:

shown

Dedicee of map:

William Sparkes, Esq, Mayor, Aldermen and Town Council.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1868-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560