Wiltshire-Malmesbury-1831 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23226

Map Date:

1831

Repository reference:

Wiltshire RO X6/51

Historic county:

Wiltshire

Town name:

Malmesbury

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU187690

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 1869

Map title:

'Plan of Malmesbury from actual survey, 1831'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy: original in Athelstan Museum, Malmesbury.

Scale:

1:2772

Map-maker:

John Wilkins [sv], C. Burton [drew on stone], R. Cartwright, Lithogc. Printer, Warwick Place [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

39.7 x 42.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

sewers, misc: Named well.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

areas named (no boundaries shown): Parishes named, but no explicit boundaries.

Known copies of map:

Glos RO D.674b/P73, Athelstan Museum, Malmesbury [originals]; Wiltshire RO X.6/51 [photo].

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

prominent hills

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

Dedicee of map:

Rt Hon Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire.

Tenement boundaries group:

less built-up parts only

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560