Kent-Folkestone-1782 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21510

Map Date:

1782

Repository reference:

East Kent Archives EK/U.P1

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Folkestone

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TR229359

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TR 1937

Map title:

[Title page:] 'A map or ground plot of the town of Folkestone and its environs on a small scale together with eleven maps of the town only on a larger scale... drawn from an actual survey taken for the use of the Earl of Radnor Viscount Folkestone by John Powell 1782.'

Comments on map:

Book of reference at EK/U.270/E6/1,2. Small-scale map at 1:6336; 11 detail maps at 1:594, one at 1:3920. There is some overlap between detailed sections, and some buildings shown in detail on one map are omitted on another e.g. the church (cp. folios 2 and 4).

Scale:

1:594

Map-maker:

John Powell [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

26 x 41 [x 13: page size. Small map is 25.7 x 18.7 with border, others mostly about 25.5 x 39.5, but the last is about 25.5 x 30.0].

Number of parts:

13

Colouring:

roads, water, land-use, owners, decorative: Cliffs, trees: grey. Coloured scale-dicing. Road infill is brown wavy lines, suggesting tyre-marks.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised, steps to buildings: Unclear if all buildings are in fact shown.

Mills:

watermills

Water transport infrastructure:

groynes, jetties: [Groynes pictorial].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: Cross-hatched, with cross on white reversed-out ground: more 19th than 18th century.

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, misc.: Watch House.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

East Kent Archives U.270/P1/1-13 [1 large volume] [Bk of ref at East Kent Archives U.270/E6/1,2] [tracings at /P2/1-2: ufp].

Industry:

textiles

River and foreshore features:

misc: Net-drying poles [on beach: strikingly pictorial: folio 9].

Gardens:

shown: [Only a few].

Miscellaneous:

Jacobs Mount [enclosure with pictorial flag].

Antiquities:

Old Pryory Pigeon House, Ruins of the Pryory, Old Mansion House.

Landowners and occupiers:

main owner only: [Radnor property coloured].

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

cliffs

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Named stairs.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Reference system:

squaring: 2.5-chain squaring in common between the small and large maps, but each map is numbered individually, with black figures left-right and red ones top-bottom, so that the north-west corner of the church is 10.6-13.7 on the small map and 3.6-4.7 on the detailed map.

Estate boundary ownership:

main owner only: [Radnor property coloured].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1871

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896-7

1:2500

1:10,560