Wiltshire-Corsham-1851 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22984

Map Date:

[1851]

Repository reference:

Wiltshire RO G.3/1/26

Historic county:

Wiltshire

Town name:

Corsham

Map type:

Health Hazard

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

ST873705

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 8773

Map title:

'Plan of the town & suburbs of Corsham, Wilts.'

Comments on map:

At back of Geo. T. Clark, Report to the General Board of Health on ... the sewerage, drainage, supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants... of Corsham, London: HMSO, 1851. Standidge reference 359-P.156.

Scale:

1:5280*

Map-maker:

Standidge & Co Litho Old Jewry [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

46.0 x 55.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

building infill omitted

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Public/administrative boundaries:

misc: Proposed boundary.

Known copies of map:

Wiltshire RO G.3/1/26.

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations: Fences only.

Waterbodies:

shown

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland: ['Swamp'].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560