Sussex-Bexhill-1899 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20787

Map Date:

? 1899

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 5460 (13)

Historic county:

Sussex

Town name:

Bexhill

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ740075

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 7209

Map title:

[Cover:] 'The new map of Bexhill on Sea drawn especially to show all the most recent streets & buildings and the drives and walks within 1 1/2 miles of the ry. station', [map:] 'The new map of Bexhill.'

Comments on map:

On cover: 'Only a limited number of copies published'. Undated: BM RD 5 AUG 1899 blue.

Scale:

1:5000

Map-maker:

Messrs Riches & Gray, Architects, Surveyors & Estate Agents, Bexhill [dr, pb], Drake Driver & Leaver, Lim, London [sic: lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

72.0 x 51.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly, outside built-up area only

Buildings:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, water works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

misc: Site for Town Hall.

Defence and military:

coastguard, drill halls: [Barrack Hall].

Welfare and charitable:

misc: Convalescent Home.

Education and academic:

schools

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 5460 (13), Maps 5460(12) [1899].

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named, rails, passenger stations

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

misc: Bexhill Institute.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1872-3

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560