Warwickshire-Leamington Spa-1852 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

16046

Map Date:

1852

Repository reference:

Warwickshire RO CR 1563/190

Historic county:

Warwickshire

Town name:

Leamington Spa

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP318659

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 3169

Comments on map:

Leamington Priors. 'Index to the Sheet Plan...' [illustrated by J.B. Harley in his essay in Field & Forest on Warwickshire Board of Health plans]. Sheets: 1,2,-,-;3,4,5,-;6-9;10-13;14-17;-,18,19,20;-,21,22,-;-,23,-,-. Paper is watermarked J. Whatman 1852; there is a second copy of Sheet 23, J. Whatman 1853, with additional buildings at the arboretum. [J.B. Harley in Field & Forest says houses are unnumbered: in fact house-numbering is intermittent, and presumably was not widespread.] [Much of the town is formed of a regular grid of streets, which must have eased field survey.]

Scale:

1:528

Map-maker:

J. Lyon Alexander, 7 Castle St & 11 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

99 x 68 [x 24; or x 25] [ 36.0 x 24.0 inches inside neat lines].

Number of parts:

25

Legends:

general legend: 'Reference': Brick and Stone Buildings [carmine], Wooden Buildings and Sheds [grey], Macadamized Roads, Gravel paths &c [light pale yellow], Stone and Brick paving and flagging [light lilac-grey], Garden Ground [green], Wash House WH, Stables ST, Coach House CH, Cow House CoH, Water Closet on Ground Floor WC, Ditto overhead WC (underlined), Ditto beneath WC (overlined), Kitchin Sink KS, Cistern Cn, Privies o, Dust Bin DB, Area A, Rain Spout RS, Sewer Grates [boxes], Lamp Posts [black squares], Fire Plugs [black circle in square], Water Posts WP, Water Supply WS.

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally, house numbers

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished, archways, stables/coach houses, glazed areas, steps to buildings, walls

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Canals:

shown, wharf, other: Weighing Machines, Crane.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, lamps, reservoirs, public lavatories, sanitary hazards, misc: Urinal, Midden; open drain; water closets are shown in true position in houses. Abbreviations: Wash House [WH], Stables [ST], Coach House [CH], Cow House [CoH], Water Closet on Ground Floor [WC], Ditto overhead WC [underlined], Ditto beneath WC [overlined], Kitchin Sink [KS], Cistern [Cn], Privies [o], Dust Bin [DB], Area [A], Rain Spout [RS], Sewer Grates [boxes], Lamp Posts [black squares], Fire Plugs [black circle in square], Water Posts [WP], Water Supply [WS], PY [not many], P [evidently pump; not in reference].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Churches emphasised more than chapels.

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

boundary markers

Known copies of map:

Warwickshire RO CR 1563/190 [MS original]; CR 1538/185, CR 1538/186 [litho version]; Warwickshire RO CR 2743/3 [incomplete set]; Leamington Library 1852/1 ff [photocopy].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, food/drink, misc: Carriage Manufactories.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, goods depots, named, turntables, rails, passenger stations, misc: Dotted lines for viaduct piers; on Great Western Railway mixed gauge shown, on running lines only.

Gardens:

shown, nurseries

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, theatres, etc

Parkland:

public parks: Including Jephson Gardens [in detail, including Dr Jephsons Statue, Maze [fully mapped], Sun Dia]].

Service and professional:

banks

Waterbodies:

shown

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Weighing Machines.

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

cow-keeping, pig-keeping

Cemeteries:

shown

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, basement levels, spot heights, other: Bench marks to 0.01 ft, street levels, water levels and basement levels to 0.1 ft, datum point 20.78 [in red]. 'NOTE The levels are marked in red figures, and are calculated from a Datum Line level with the River Avon at Elmscote; being 20.78 below mark cut in Step at North Entrance of the Parish Church of All Saints. The decimal mark between the figures of the surface levels show the point at which the height has been taken.'

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1887

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560