Warwickshire-Coventry-1888 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22220

Map Date:

1888

Repository reference:

BOL C17:70 Coventry (4)

Historic county:

Warwickshire

Town name:

Coventry

Map type:

advertising

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP335790

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 3480

Map title:

'Smith & Jabet's commercial map of Coventry. 1888.'

Comments on map:

Advertising map, similar in principle to the Borough & County, etc, maps, though colour-scheme and style are quite different. In bottom margin: 'This sheet is the property of the publishers.' 'In the event of damage, a new sheet may be had from the publishers.' Has varnished or otherwise extra surface. Scale in feet.

Scale:

1:6336

Map-maker:

Smith & Jabet, Coventry [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

60.2 x 46.0 [map: 80.7 x 77.7 overall].

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours, boundaries, R: Proposed roads, Footpaths.

Colouring:

boundaries, advertising: Multi-colour wards, red circles with reversed-out figures for advertisers.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

town walls

Welfare and charitable:

blind

Markets and exchanges:

markets, misc: Cattle Sale Co.

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Parish, Ward

Known copies of map:

BOL C17:70 Coventry (4), CUL Maps.c.89.88.1, CUL Maps.89.88.5 [1888]; BOL C17:70 Coventry (5), CUL maps.89.89.1 [50 x 52 cm, 1891].

Industry:

uncertain

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Round map: 46 advertisements, 9 with illustrations; all but two of those are for cycle firms, and only one cycle firm does not have an illustrated advert.

Monuments:

memorials: [Starley Memorial].

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Retail activity:

advertisers on map, publisher of map

Ordnance Survey's

1888-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560