Wiltshire-Westbury-1840 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

09601

Map Date:

1840

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/38/275

Historic county:

Wiltshire

Town name:

Westbury

Map type:

Tithe

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST873513

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 8945

Comments on map:

Apportionment omits ownership and occupation information for small cottages.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

Cotterells and Cooper, Bath [authors], Standidge and Co., 77 Cornhill, London [lith].

Production mode:

manuscript

Number of parts:

7

Colouring:

Buildings, water

Road names:

partly

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

houses shaded

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

township

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] IR 30/38/275.

Industry:

bricks/tiles, uncertain: Factory.

River and foreshore features:

springs

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

'Bratton Castle' [hill-fort: in gothic], Old Moat, White Horse [in plan, with eyes and tail].

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

some slopes shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:2500

1:10,560

1899-1900

1:2500

1:10,560