Parish of Swansea, including the town and franchise of Swansea, the parish of Swansea Higher and Lower so called and the hamlet of St Thomas
Description
Shows tramroad, canal with wharves, quays, ferry, waterbodies, woods, building names, road names, hamlet boundaries, reservoir, lookout, town hall, postern, castle, market place, assembly rooms, schools, museum, house of industry, gaol, infirmary, burial ground, chapels, gas works, slaughterhouses, pottery, coal and timber yards, quarries, flint mill, mills, patent slip, toll house, ballast heaps, jetty, land for harbour improvements, high and low water marks, sand hills. Apportionment omits land use and some field names. Part 2 of map shows town at scale 2 chains to 1 inch (1:1584), and gives street names.
1 ms. map in 2 parts : col ; Part 1: 93 x 146 cm.; Part 2: 130 x 97 cm. + apportionment schedule (4, 104, 17 leaves).
Scale 1:6,336. 1 in. = 8 chains.
This item was digitised as part of the 'Cynefin: Mapping Wales' Sense of Place' project. The project was led by Archives and Records Council Wales and funded by Heritage Lottery Fund Wales with additional financial support from Welsh Government.
The project digitised 1,224 tithe maps held in The National Library of Wales. More than 1,300 volunteers used a crowdsourcing website to transcribe and georeference these maps, indexing 28,105 pages of accompanying tithe apportionments to produce an impressive total of over 1,800,000 index records for the website.
You can browse and search the tithe maps and accompanying apportionment documents on the National Library's Places of Wales website.
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