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Wiltshire-Marlborough-1843

CBTM:
23229
Map Date:
1843
Repository reference:
Wiltshire RO 2027
Historic county:
Wiltshire
Town name:
Marlborough
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SU187690
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SU 1869
Map title:
'Marlborough
Comments on map:
Everything within the town parishes is numbered; reference elsewhere. Purpose unclear, but has May's customary high standard of finish, including a ruler-style scale-bar.
Scale:
1:792
Map-maker:
A.M. May, Surveyor, Marlborough [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
185 x 192
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, boundaries, land-use, decorative: Including shaded names and roadsides.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
clergy residences, important buildings only
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished: Houses outside parish are light blue: Anglican churches are uninhabited buildings, but chapels are orangey.
Mills:
watermills
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Pump, Engine.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Anglican have dedications: others 'Chapel'.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses: Named only.
Education and academic:
schools
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish
Known copies of map:
Wiltshire RO 2027.
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
Unnamed concentric earthwork to west of town.
Borders:
decorative: Cased lilac.
Symbolic elements:
Prince of Wales' feathers and 'Ich Dien' on north pointer.
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
Depot.
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Ruler-style scale-bar.
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
pounds/pinfolds
Walls, embankments, etc:
Hedges.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1883
1:2500
1:10,560
1899
1:2500
1:10,560
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