Worcestershire-Worcester-1888 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22436

Map Date:

[1888]

Repository reference:

BL 12214.a.1

Historic county:

Worcestershire

Town name:

Worcester

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SO851547

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 8853

Map title:

'Plan of Worcester.'

Comments on map:

In The Encyclopaedia Britannica, ninth edition, Edinburgh: Black, 1888, Vol XXIV, p.666. Evidently from a block. Style suggests Bartholomew: street names italic. [The Bartholomew Printing Record [in National Library of Scotland, Map Library] indicates that 610 copies of maps for the 9th Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica were printed on 24 April 1892.]

Scale:

1:12,000*

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

8.0 x 9.8

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

royal palaces

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised

Canals:

shown

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, infirmaries

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BL 1.12214.

Railways:

routes, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms

Antiquities:

Site of Fort Royal.

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Ordnance Survey's

1886

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560