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Warwickshire-Kenilworth-1877

CBTM:
16049
Map Date:
? 1877
Repository reference:
Warwickshire RO CR 2386/1-5,7-25
Historic county:
Warwickshire
Town name:
Kenilworth
Map type:
Sanitary
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
SP283720
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SP 3169
Comments on map:
'Kenilworth Drainage'. List dates it 1877. Apparently later additions, of which the infill is much less faded than the original work. Cartographically, more an 'engineering' that an artistic map: buildings in full detail, but not much ancillary information on functions, etc. Sheet 6 is missing, and may never have been drawn.
Scale:
1:1056
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
96 x 65 [x 25] [35.9 x 23.9 inside neat lines].
Number of parts:
25
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use, utilities
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, glazed areas
Mills:
windmills
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, pumping stations, sewers, misc: Pigs [sic], Flap Valve (discharging into stream); abbreviations: F.T (Syphon), G.C.V., W. [? well, but inside buildings], M.H., T [? tap, outside], P. [? pump]. Sewers with pipe diameters, syphons, manholes, valves and ventilators in red, and gradients in green. Information includes notes on ownership, e.g. 'First two pipes here belong to the Board. The second is a junction.' Distances between sewer branches to houses given, in feet and inches. Additions include a sewage farm, in detail, with numerous lines of '4 inch glazed socketed stoneware pipes', embankments, diverted river, and effluent carriers: latter additions include 'sink', 'latrine' and 'pump'. The later additions such as sewage farm are in red, and include 'straining tanks', in carmine, blue and primrose yellow.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
police
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Education and academic:
schools
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Warwickshire RO CR.2386/1-5, 7-25 [original]; Z.337(U) [photo].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, textiles
Railways:
routes, goods depots, named, turntables, platforms, rails, passenger stations
Waterbodies:
shown
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Miscellaneous service buildings:
Loft.
Miscellaneous transport-related:
The Ford.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
F.T.(chain).
Stated measuerments:
bench marks, other: Sewer diameters and distances between branches; bench marks 0.01 ft [some are 'OBM'], Flood Line 247.06.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1885-6
1:2500
1:10,560
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