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Warwickshire-Coventry-1806

CBTM:
22245
Map Date:
6.1806
Repository reference:
BOL Gough Maps 32, fol.16
Historic county:
Warwickshire
Town name:
Coventry
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SP335790
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SP 3480
Map title:
'A plan of the city of Coventry taken June 1806.'
Comments on map:
Appears planimentrically reliable. Descriptive notes occupy nearly half the sheet: shed no light on the map's making.
Scale:
1:5760
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
49.2 x 37.2 [overall: map 46.7 x 25.0].
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours: 'Streets' are pink, and roads without buildings 'light brown'.
Colouring:
roads, water, boundaries, decorative: Churches grey; grey and yellow 'trimming'.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
watermills
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Well.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively, (pictorial): Anglican are pictorial.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, internal revenue
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish, Ward
Known copies of map:
BOL Gough Maps 32.
Industry:
chemicals, textiles, uncertain: Factories.
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
Remains of town wall and gates, Grey Friars Steeple [pictorial], church sites, Amphitheatre.
Landowners and occupiers:
industrial owners
Waterbodies:
shown
Borders:
decorative
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Cemeteries:
shown
Ordnance Survey's
1888-9
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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