Yorks-Whitby-1828 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18857

Map Date:

1828

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] T72/11 [II]

Historic county:

Yorks, North Riding

Town name:

Whitby

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NZ900110

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NZ 9007

Map title:

'Plan of Whitby and environs, from actual survey, by John Wood. 1828.'

Comments on map:

Despite the title, bottom right outside neatline is 'Environs Sketched'.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

John Wood, [sv, pb], W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinr. [eng], sold at Whitby & by surveyor at Mr Todd's, Scarbro' [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

52.8 x 58.7

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, steps to buildings

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, piers, misc: Includes Fish Pier; Timber Pond, Life Boat Houses (x 2).

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Wells.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs: [Two custom houses].

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

township

Known copies of map:

North Riding RO ZW (M) 1/117 [MIC 2003/371-375], TNA [PRO] T72/11 [II], RGS 14.B.324.

Industry:

food/drink, ship yards, rope walk

River and foreshore features:

foreshore: [Most unusually, low water mark is solid, whereas high water mark is fine dots, giving at best a subdued effect].

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, museums, libraries/newsrooms: 'Museum, Library & Baths, Promenade'.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Antiquities:

Abbey Ruins (but hatched like other buildings).

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely

Relief:

prominent hills

Post and telegraphs:

flagstaff, post offices: [Cross Flag Staff].

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Church Stairs [the 199, though rather fewer are shown].

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

rubbish tips

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1849

1:1056

1:10,560

1891-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560