Yorks-Scarborough-1828 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20105

Map Date:

1828

Repository reference:

North Yorkshire RO ZOX [MIC 1982/108-113]

Historic county:

Yorks, North Riding

Town name:

Scarborough

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TA048891

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TA 0288

Map title:

'Plan of the town and environs of Scarborough from actual survey by John Wood, 1828.'

Comments on map:

The original seems to be rather faded, and the microfilm contrast and legibility are consequently not good, and much of the reference to public etc buildings is illegible. Publication/sales note may consequently be illegible rather than cropped [some copies are sold by Mr Tod, Scarborough].

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

John Wood [sv], W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinr. [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

54 x 64

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Water transport infrastructure:

piers

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

customs

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, workhouses

Known copies of map:

North Riding RO ZOX [MIC 1982/108-113], Scarborough Library S.912.2.W55.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, theatres, etc

Magnetic data:

diagram

Service and professional:

banks

Antiquities:

Monastic sites.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Usual Wood style of naming larger owners].

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

Freemasons

Relief:

prominent hills

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1850

1:1056

1:10,560

1890-1

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560