Warwickshire-Rugby-1851 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

16738

Map Date:

1851

Repository reference:

Rugby Library, local studies section

Historic county:

Warwickshire

Town name:

Rugby

Map type:

Sanitary

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP500755

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 5380

Comments on map:

Bound in single volume with Exeter 16739; preceded by 1:10,560 diagram of sheet lines, with abbreviations and colours (these latter under 16739). Surveyed '1850-1': all sheets signed by Captain And. Beattie, R.E., 27 March 1851. One 1:2640 sheet is portrait-shaped.

Scale:

1:2640

Map-maker:

Ordnance Survey [sv, dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

100 x 67 [x 5].

Number of parts:

5

Legends:

general legend: Abbreviations: P, Pump; LP, Lamp Post; GP, Gas Plug; S, Sink; SG, Sewer Grate; o Privy; Cn, Cistern, WH, Wash House, DB, Dust Bin, WP, Water Plug; St, Stable; CH, Coach House; CoH, Cow House; FP, Fire Plug; BM, Bench Mark; brick or stone houses (carmine); wooden houses (grey); wooden sheds (grey, black dashes); stone paving and flagging (grey-blue); brick paving (orange), Macadam or Ballast (primrose); Conservatory, Green House or Hot House (black cross-hatching); Antiquities (gothic); Parish and Ecclesiastical Boundaries (dashes); Township Boundaries (dots); 5ft RH; CR; SS; Und.; Def. On index sheet: 'The Boundaries are inserted upon the authority of the Meresmen appointed by the Rugby Local Board of Health.'

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

masonry distinguished, stables/coach houses, public buildings emphasised: Public buildings deeper carmine, mostly not named.

Sanitary and utility information:

lamps, sanitary hazards: Abbreviations: P [Pump], LP [Lamp Post], GP [Gas Plug], S [Sink], SG [Sewer Grate], o [Privy], Cn [Cistern], WH [Wash House, DB [Dust Bin, WP [Water Plug], St [Stable], CH [Coach House], CoH [Cow House], FP [Fire Plug]'.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

hamlet, Parish

Known copies of map:

Rugby Library, local studies section.

Industry:

bricks/tiles

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named, turntables, rails, passenger stations, misc: Viaduct with arches.

Gardens:

shown: Including areas annotated 'Vegetable Gardens'.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Part of the Moat of the Ancient Castle.

Waterbodies:

shown

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

cow-keeping

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

uncertain: Spoil Bank: by railway.

Geodetic notes:

'The marginal lines are perpendiculars and parallels to the Meridian of Rugby Church'. Boundary of the work shown on the Ten Feet Plans, Triangulation points [not in legend].

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, spot heights: Spot heights to 0.1 ft, bench marks to 0.01 ft, in red.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1888

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560