Wiltshire-Bradford on Avon-1837 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

16080

Map Date:

1837

Repository reference:

Wiltshire RO G13/990/8L

Historic county:

Wiltshire

Town name:

Bradford on Avon

Map type:

Rating

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST825611

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 8661

Comments on map:

Evidently original for tithe map. Varnished, on rollers: rating seems likely purpose. There does not seem to be a book of reference.

Scale:

1:6336

Map-maker:

Geo. C. Ashmead, Bristol [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

125 x 86

Number of parts:

5

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, boundaries

Road names:

inside built-up area only

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Canals:

shown, wharf, other: Aqueduct.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

tithing

Known copies of map:

Wiltshire RO G.13/990/9L; BOL G.A.Wilts 4o 143, RGS Library [1841: facsim in G. Langdon, The year of the map, Tisbury: Compton Russell, 1976].

Industry:

food/drink, uncertain: Factories.

Waterbodies:

shown

Commons:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Other land-uses & land-cover:

misc: 'French Grafs let in Gardens', on edge of town.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1884-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560