Wiltshire-Salisbury-1852 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23225

Map Date:

1852

Repository reference:

Wiltshire RO G.23/701/5 PC

Historic county:

Wiltshire

Town name:

Salisbury

Map type:

Utility

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU144298

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 1433

Map title:

'Salisbury Improvements. Drainage. Plan shewing courses of proposed sewers. 1852.'

Comments on map:

Signed by engineers, Dec. 1852, below title. Evidently related to the 1:528 [Exeter 16113].

Scale:

1:3960

Map-maker:

? Hummell & Lister, Engineers [authors].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

80.8 x 81.0

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

sanitation

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, boundaries, utilities, other: Sewers and altitudes: red.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Mostly streets only: numerous buildings emphasised but not described.

Sanitary and utility information:

sewers: 'Refuse Drainage' solid red, 'Substratum Drainage' pecked red: arrows for direction of flow.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Penal:

jails/reformatories: [Wall only of gaol].

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, misc, areas named (no boundaries shown): [Borough assumed]; two liberties named, but no boundaries; 'chequers' in town also named.

Known copies of map:

Wiltshire RO G.23/701/5 PC.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, named: Line to Basingstoke: fragment only.

Stated measuerments:

other: Depths of sewers below surface.

Tenement boundaries group:

less built-up parts only

Ordnance Survey's

1878

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560