Windsor-1845 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22434

Map Date:

[1845]

Repository reference:

BL 10350.cc.17

Town name:

Windsor, Eton

Map type:

Highways

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU969768

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 9379

Map title:

'Plan shewing the state of the parks roads & thoroughfares of Windsor. 1845.', 'Plan shewing the proposed alterations in the parks roads & thoroughfares of Windsor. 1845.'

Comments on map:

F.p. 7 and 11 of Richard Robert Tighe, A letter to... the Earl of Lincoln... on the present state and direction of the roads intersecting the parks and grounds of Windsor Castle..., printed for private circulation; letter is dated (p.6) 27 May 1845. Same map in two different versions: only included on grounds of scale.

Scale:

1:15,840

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

27.0 x 40.0 [x 2]

Number of parts:

2

Colouring:

roads, other: Existing roads, parks, improvements.

Building names:

royal palaces

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

barracks

Education and academic:

schools: [Eton College].

Known copies of map:

BL 10350.cc.17, BL 798.k.17, BOL G.A.Engl.Rds.a.2.

Gardens:

misc: Royal Gardens.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1868

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560

1866-7

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897-8

1:2500

1:10,560