Devonshire-Brixham-1781
CBTM:
19879
Map Date:
1781
Repository reference:
BLML Maps M.T.11.h.1(1)
Historic county:
Devonshire
Town name:
Brixham
Map type:
Military
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
SX925562
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SX 8956
Map title:
'Plan of the watering place at Brixham taken by J. King 1781'.
Comments on map:
From Admiral Lord Howe's collection. Evidently for water supply for Navy.
Scale:
1:1200
Map-maker:
J. King [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
69.3 x 45.2
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
roads, general highlighting of district, decorative
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
watermills
Water transport infrastructure:
piers, river stairs, wharfs
Sanitary and utility information:
reservoirs, misc: 'Course of the Water Pipes', 'The Waste Pipe to be continually running' from reservoir.
Known copies of map:
BL M.T.11.h.1(1).
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Commons:
shown
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Three sailing vessels in sea: closer to fishing smacks than to anything larger.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland
Tenement boundaries group:
incomplete
Ordnance Survey's
1862
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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