Sussex-Lewes-1877 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20783

Map Date:

5.1877

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 5460 (7)

Historic county:

Sussex

Town name:

Lewes

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ414101

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 4011

Map title:

'Lewes. Reduced from the Ordnance map by Geo. Fuller, Surveyor, Lewes.'

Comments on map:

Careful transcript of Ordnance Survey, with omission of minor details such as rails.

Scale:

1:3840

Map-maker:

Geo. Fuller, Surveyor, Lewes [author], C.F. Kell, Lith., Castle St, Holborn, London [lith].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

77.3 x 53.2

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

windmills

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs, water works

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

volunteer parade grounds

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, infirmaries, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

bathing, sports grounds: [Open-air Swimming Baths].

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Parish, misc: Parliamentary.

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 5460(7), BOL C17:70 Lewes (1), CUL Maps.88.87.3.

Industry:

engineering, food/drink, lime/cement, textiles, timber

Railways:

routes, earthworks, goods depots, named, passenger stations

Gardens:

shown

Miscellaneous:

The Dripping Pan: south of railway station, hachured sides.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Castle, Priory.

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

shown partially: Only on east side.

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Cemeteries:

shown: With chapels.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

out-of-town inns only

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1872-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560