Sussex-Eastbourne-1841 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

08853

Map Date:

1841

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/35/87

Historic county:

Sussex

Town name:

Eastbourne

Map type:

Tithe

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TV610990

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TV 6099

Comments on map:

The rural part is at 1:4752 and dated 1840 and is described as copied 'from a survey by J. Adams'.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

W. Figg, Lewes [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Number of parts:

2

Building names:

shown

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries: [Circular Redoubt].

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/35/87.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

some slopes shown, cliffs

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1874

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560