Wiltshire-Swindon-1886 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23180

Map Date:

1886

Repository reference:

Wiltshire RO G.24/2/34.L

Historic county:

Wiltshire

Town name:

Swindon

Map type:

Utility

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU155840

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 1889

Map title:

'Map of Old & New Swindon with Gorse Hill & Rodbourne in the county of Wilts'.

Comments on map:

Dated '1877 and 1886'.

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

W.H. Read, Surveyor, Swindon [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

181 x 290

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, utilities

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted.: Depiction patchy: GWR Works grey.

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

electricity works, water mains: Water pipes blue.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: With reversed-out crosses: 'Church' in gothic, others unnamed.

Defence and military:

drill halls

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

Wiltshire RO G.24/2/34.L.

Industry:

engineering

Railways:

routes, named, rails, passenger stations

Parkland:

public parks

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

mechanics institutes

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Cemeteries:

shown: Green.

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560