Catalogue description Tithe map of Gillingham (parish), Kent. Shows boundary in centre of River Medway,...

Tithe map of Gillingham (parish), Kent. Shows boundary in centre of River Medway, buildings (named), chapel, tower, fort, barracks, ramparts, wash-house yard, stile, footpath and/or bridleway, named roads, marsh (coloured), waterbodies. Colouring used. Scale: 1 inch to 3 chains. First class map. Construction lines shown. One part by George Darbyshire and George C Darbyshire, Brompton, 1838; second part by John and George C Darbyshire, Brompton, 1839.

With 10 altered apportionment maps. 1] Dated 12 December 1861, at 1 inch to 3 chains. 2] Dated 28 November 1864, showing London Chatham and Dover Railway. 3] Dated 15 November 1883, at 1 inch to 3 chains, showing Brompton Barracks, St Mary's Barracks and convict prison. 4] Dated 31 March 1887, at 1 inch to chains, showing London Chatham and Dover Railway and Dockyard Railway. 5] Dated 30 March 1897, at 1:2500, showing London Chatham and Dover Railway. 6] Dated 31 December 1901. 7] Dated 25 September 1907; Ordnance Survey map Kent sheet XIX.16. 8] Dated 23 September 1909, at 1:2500. 9] Dated 1 September 1927. 10] Dated 31 March 1930, at 1:2500. Other altered apportionment maps are located with the apportionment.

This tithe map, made when the original 1838 map became worn, is a 1925 copy of the original map at IR 77/31

Tithe file: IR 18/3609

Tithe apportionment: IR 29/17/149

Roger J P Kain and Richard R Oliver, The Tithe Maps of England and Wales (Cambridge, 1995).