Wiltshire-Warminster-1865 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23234

Map Date:

1865

Repository reference:

Wiltshire RO G.16/1/42L

Historic county:

Wiltshire

Town name:

Warminster

Map type:

Highways

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

ST873451

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 8945

Map title:

'Map of the roads in the town of Warminster 1865.'

Comments on map:

Decidedly fragmentary: included as a borderline case.

Scale:

1:792

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

144 x 322

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

sanitation, R

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, utilities, other: Pavements (grey): only roads maintained by Board for repair of Highways are coloured.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences, partly

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished: Frontages only.

Turnpikes:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

sewers, misc: Wells; sewers coloured, with direction of flow arrows.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Described in gothic.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, police

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

Wiltshire RO G.16/1/42L.

Industry:

food/drink

Railways:

routes

Service and professional:

banks

Stated measuerments:

other: Sewer dimensions.

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