Wiltshire-Warminster-1852 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23233

Map Date:

1852

Repository reference:

Wiltshire RO G.16/1/44L

Historic county:

Wiltshire

Town name:

Warminster

Map type:

Utility

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

ST873451

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 8945

Map title:

'Map of the town of Warminster in the county of Wilts exhibiting the distribution and extent of the main pipes laid down and used for Lighting that Town with Gas and also the situation of the public lamps. 1852. Prepared by THE INSPECTORS acting in and for the Parish of Warminster under and by virtue of the Act of Parliament 3 and 4 William 4, cap. 90.'

Comments on map:

'Schedule of the Public Lamps', bottom right, amended in red up to 1877.

Scale:

1:2376

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

114.3 x 83.7

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

Buildings, sanitation

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, decorative, utilities

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences, partly

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished: Frontages only.

Turnpikes:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, lamps, gas mains: [Gas pipes red, gas lamps black].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

Wiltshire RO G.16/1/44L.

Railways:

passenger stations

Waterbodies:

shown

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

Tenement boundaries group:

intersections with frontages only

Ordnance Survey's

1885-6

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560