Wiltshire-Trowbridge-1860 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

16109

Map Date:

? 1860

Repository reference:

Wiltshire RO G15/1/89 PC

Historic county:

Wiltshire

Town name:

Trowbridge

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST855580

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 8661

Comments on map:

Colour-printed, quite good, though register slips a bit. Card index suggests c.1860.

Scale:

1:2400

Map-maker:

J. Howell, Trowbridge [sv], J. Foley, Lithog., 14 John St, Bristol [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

89 x 55

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished: Houses solid, others ruled red.

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

Wiltshire RO G.15/1/89 PC.

Industry:

engineering, food/drink, stone/builders' yards, uncertain: Various factories named after streets.

Railways:

routes, goods depots, named, rails, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

misc: Music Room.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Other land-uses & land-cover:

misc: Furlong Allotment.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1885

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560