Sussex-Eastbourne-1890 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18996

Map Date:

[1890]

Repository reference:

RGS Library

Historic county:

Sussex

Town name:

Eastbourne

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TV610990

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TV 6099

Map title:

'Eastbourne'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from C.S. Ward, Surrey and Sussex [Thorough Guide Series], London: Dulau, 1893, f.p.41, and 1897 [no edition number], f.p.44.

Scale:

1:10,560

Map-maker:

John Bartholomew F.R.G.S. Edinr [author, pr].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

34.4 x 21.4

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills: [Windmill (corn)].

Water transport infrastructure:

piers

Sanitary and utility information:

electricity works, reservoirs, water works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, police

Defence and military:

barracks, coastguard, castles/forts/batteries, misc.: [Named [Martello] towers]; Ordnance Yard.

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds, recreation grounds

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

CUL Maps.c.88.88.2, RGS Eng & Wales S/S 160 [1879: pb W.H. Smith]; RGS Library [in C.S. Ward, Surrey and Sussex [Thorough Guide Series], London: Dulau, 1893, f.p.41, and 1897 [no edition number], f.p.44]; BLML Maps 3.a.78; RGS Eng & Wales S/S60 [1896: pb W.H. Smith]; RGS Library [1899: in A.R. Hope Moncrieff, ed, Black's Guide to Hastings and Eastbourne, London: Adam & Charles Black, 1899, f.p.58]; BLML Maps 17.c.4, BOL C17 b.11, RGS 10.F.4 [1899: pb Newnes, pl 57 in The Royal Atlas of England & Wales].

Industry:

food/drink, lime/cement

Railways:

routes, rails, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, theatres, etc

Parkland:

public parks

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Post and telegraphs:

flagstaff, post offices

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Reference system:

squaring: Not figured or lettered.

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Mile Stone London 61.

Stated measuerments:

spot heights

Ordnance Survey's

1874

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560

1874

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560