Sussex-Lewes-1900 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19000

Map Date:

[1900]

Repository reference:

RGS Library

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:

'A plan of the town of Lewes'.

Comments on map:

In F.G. Brabant, Sussex, London: Methuen, 1900 [The Little Guide Series], f.p.188. In an arts-&-crafts style, explicitly dated 1900: unclear who 'B.C.B.' may be, but the style contrasts markedly with the 'copperplate' hitherto prevailing. Scale measured as 1.9 inches to 0.5 mile, 1:16,674.

Scale:

1:16,632

Map-maker:

B.C.B. [dr].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

11.6 x 6.3

Number of parts:

1

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: With St John's crosses, sometimes sprouting from black 'blocks'.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Known copies of map:

RGS Library.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Antiquities:

Priory of St Pancras.

Relief:

prominent hills

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

'Signposts' point to racecourse and other places on the map, which is a little less elaborate, though no less exuberant, than Chichester [Exeter 18999].

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Miscellaneous religious group:

Calvary.

Ordnance Survey's

1872-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560