Sussex-Brighton-1877
CBTM:
20764
Map Date:
? 1877
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 4.b.44
Historic county:
Sussex
Town name:
Brighton, Hove
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ312043
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 2806
Map title:
[Cover:] 'Bacon's new Ordnance plan of Brighton', [map:] 'Bacon's new Ordnance plan of Brighton being an exact reduction from the new 25 inch Ordnance map revised to date of publication from surveys made especially for this map.'
Comments on map:
Dated from the Ordnance Survey reference. Includes letterpress street index, top left.
Scale:
1:7040
Map-maker:
Bacon's Geogl Estabt. 127 Strand, London [dr, eng, pb].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
84.0 x 61.2
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly, outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
windmills
Water transport infrastructure:
piers, misc: Life Boat House.
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, municipal depots, reservoirs, water works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
customs
Defence and military:
barracks, drill halls
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, deaf & dumb, hospitals, workhouses, misc: Industr. Home.
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges, misc: Lecture Rooms.
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
race courses, sports grounds, v, misc: International Gun & Polo Club Grounds.
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish, Ward
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 4.b.44; East Sussex RO AMS 6008/3/1/10, also /11 [c.1877]; Brighton Library [photo: Alfred Haviland, The health-guide map to Brighton]; BLML Maps 56.e.29, CUL Atlas.4.88.17 [1882: new Ordnance atlas of Brighton]; BLML Maps 11.c.30 [1883: in New Large Scale Ordnance atlas of the British Isles]; East Sussex RO AMS 6008/3/1/12, also /13 [1884.c]; RGS 7.E.17 [1884: in New Large Scale Ordnance atlas of the British Isles]; BLML Maps 37.e.31, BOL C15 c.1, National Archives of Scotland [West Register House, open access] [1885: Pl 66 in New Large Scale Ordnance atlas of the British Isles]; BLML Maps 19.c.2, CUL C15 c.3 [1889: Pl.65 in New Large Scale atlas of the British Isles]; BL PP.2505.ye/51 [1889: 1:10,560, for Kelly's Directory of Brighton, Hove & Preston [1889-1940]]; CUL Maps.88.89.4 [1890.c, 87 x 61 cm]; CUL maps.d.88.89.3 [1890.c, pub H. & C. Treacher, 86 x 68 cm]; Brighton Library [photo of Treacher version]; CUL Maps.a.88.89.1 [1890.c: pb Treacher]; BLML Maps 33.c.2 [1891: in New large scale atlas of the British Isles from the Ordnance Survey]; BLML Maps 33.b.32 [1895: in Commercial and library atlas of the British Isles from the Ordnance Survey]; East Sussex RO AMS 6008/3/1/14 [1895.c]; East Sussex RO AMS 6008/3/1/17 [1899.c: pb Treacher, 1:7920]; CUL Maps.c.88.90.3, Maps.c.88.90.5 [1899.c: pb Bacon, 94 x 58, 1:7920]; East Sussex RO AMS 6008/3/1/19 [1900.c]; East Sussex RO AMS 6008/3/1/20 [c.1903].
Industry:
engineering, food/drink, misc: Coach Facty.
Railways:
routes, sidings, goods depots, motive power depots, named, rails, passenger stations
River and foreshore features:
foreshore, misc: Fountain.
Gardens:
nurseries, misc: 'Queen's Graperies &c'.
Leisure and entertainment:
aquariums, baths/spa, museums, libraries/newsrooms, ice-skating, misc: Dome, [Grand Aquarium].
Parkland:
public parks, private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Waterbodies:
shown
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Monuments:
statues: [Statue of King George IV].
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Reference system:
squaring: 0.25-mile.
Cemeteries:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
rubbish tips
Stated measuerments:
spot heights
Ordnance Survey's
1873-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896-7
1:2500
1:10,560
1873-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896-7
1:2500
1:10,560
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