Wiltshire-Warminster-1838
CBTM:
16110
Map Date:
1838
Repository reference:
Wiltshire RO H15/130/2
Historic county:
Wiltshire
Town name:
Warminster
Map type:
Rating
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
ST873451
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
ST 8945
Comments on map:
Made under the authority of the Poor Law Commissioners; book of reference at H15/130/1. Originally one sheet, now cut up into 21, with apparently some cropping of margins. Bold rather than detailed. Note explains re disputed boundaries, resolved by the Vestry in 1840.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
Cruse & Fox [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
430 x 240 [approx: before sectioning].
Number of parts:
4
Legends:
boundaries
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, boundaries
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly: Some in sans-serif
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished
Turnpikes:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Wells.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Public/administrative boundaries:
misc: Disputed boundaries red, as explained in note.
Known copies of map:
Wiltshire RO H.15/130/2 [book of reference at H15/130/1], 628/20/1, 1a [book of reference at 628/20/2]; Wiltshire RO X.6/75 [photocopy of town area: original at Longleat: seems to be a derivative of this or tithe].
Industry:
lime/cement
Antiquities:
'Battlesbury' (hill fort).
Waterbodies:
shown
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
pounds/pinfolds
Miscellaneous street furniture:
Milestones [pictorial] with distances, signpost [pictorial].
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1885-6
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1899
1:2500
1:10,560
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