[Plan of Ypres]

Description

Series Number Id: UNKNOWN. Sheet number: part of Sheet 28. Ypres town plan. In lower margin, "Warneton". Part of a larger engraved or lithographed Belgian sheet, with ground forms shown by hachures, not contours, showing Ypres in the period before the railway reached it. The moat and ramparts are shown completely enclosing the town, and also the Inondation de Bailleul and Inondation de Messines and outlying forts, but there is no indication of date. The Menin, Lille, Dixmude, and Temple Gates are shown, and the Cloth Hall and Cathedral are clearly indicated. Printed in black, with administrative boundaries in blue. Manuscript date 1837 [?], which appears reliable., Location: Research Collections; Fonds: WW1 Trench Maps: France; Box number: PC18; envelope_number: 551.