Historic Thomas Ward Maps
Historic map of the Lambton Quay area
Thomas Ward, a licensed surveyor and civil engineer, was contracted in 1889 to produce a detailed map of Wellington city.
Ward spent three years collecting information about the central city, and compiling it into scale map tiles. The maps show legal boundaries of properties and streets, buildings and what they were constructed of, street-lamp and fireplug locations.
The Thomas Ward survey map provides much information about early Wellington. Where building records are not complete, it is useful for discovering whether present-day buildings were in existence prior to 1892. It also hints at the nature of the late 19th Century city where high-density housing is evident in some parts.
Select an area from one of the PDF indexes below to view the relevant Thomas Ward map.
- Index (high resolution) (2.99Mb PDF)
- Index (low resolution) (311Kb PDF)
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