The 1870 Ordnance Survey map or town plan of Southampton was surveyed in 1868 and published in 1870 at the Ordnance Survey Office in Southampton. This highly detailed plan covers a fairly limited area, including the old town centre and docks, St Mary's, Northam, Bevois Town, The Polygon and Bedford Place. It extends westwards to just beyond Four Posts Hill and northwards to Archers Road and just north of Lodge Road. There are 40 sheets to the plan, at the scale of 10.56 feet to one mile (1/500). The Southampton town plan is highly detailed, with ground floor plans of all public buildings and the layouts of parks and private gardens.
The downloadable PDF documents below contain the following information:
• The complete 1870 town plan of Southampton, showing reference locations and the map sheet grid.
• Detailed images of the Bargate and St Mary's Workhouse (now part of City College) in 1870.
• Small images of each of the 40 plan sheets.
Please use the document called Complete 1870 Map with reference locations and sheet numbers and a modern map of the city to locate each map sheet. If you are uncertain which map sheet covers your area of interest, send an email to Historic Environment Record giving both the relevant modern address and postcode.
Copies of the 1870 map sheets are held by City Archives and the Reference Library's Local Studies Collection.
The 1870 map can also be viewed in more detail on the Map Southampton web site (see link to left).
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