Wiltshire-Melksham-1848
CBTM:
23527
Map Date:
1848
Repository reference:
Post Office Archive POST 21/46
Historic county:
Wiltshire
Town name:
Melksham
National grid reference:
ST 903638
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
23527
Map title:
'Plan of the Town of Melksham Wilts. 1848.'
Comments on map:
Scale seems intended as 5 inches to 20 chains, but measures 5.15 inches. Purpose of map unclear: looks as though derives from tithe or other ‘careful’ survey. Buildings named via Reference. Relationship of scale (multiples of 2) suggests that it might possibly derive from the Lucas survey of 1836 (Exeter 16106, 16107).
Scale:
1:3168
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
50.2/50.7 x 44.0/44.7
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
buildings: Deep carmine
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
shown
Canals:
shown, wharf
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
misc, Parliament, police: Weigh Bridge.
Woodland:
orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
misc: ‘Present’ and postmaster-general’s ‘Proposed’ boundaries have been superimposed in red, 20 Jan 1849.
Known copies of map:
Post Office Archive POST 21/46
Industry:
food/drink, misc, rope walk, textiles: Brush Factory.
Railways:
named, passenger stations, projected or otherwise unbuilt lines: ‘Wilts Somerset & Weymouth Railway’: runs dead straight, whereas should be on curve: this suggests a superimposition on an earlier survey.
River and foreshore features:
misc: Flow-arrow in river.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
misc: ‘Meads’ named.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
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