Suffolk-Bury St Edmunds-1809
CBTM:
22387
Map Date:
1809
Repository reference:
CUL MS Plans 885
Historic county:
Suffolk
Town name:
Bury St Edmunds
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TL853642
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TL 8866
Map title:
'Plan of the borough of Bury Saint Edmunds in the county of Suffolk by S.W. Smith 1809 Surveyor'.
Comments on map:
Looks like a draft for a published map: mapmaker's full name in border, bottom right. Buildings identified by number, but no reference provided.
Scale:
1:6336*
Map-maker:
Samuel Wade Smith [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
47.0 x 49.5
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, decorative: Buildings and border-shading both grey.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Known copies of map:
CUL MS Plans 885.
Antiquities:
Abbey church and other ruins mapped in plan, in detail, with piers.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative: Piece-of-paper type.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top left: abbey church, from south-east; top right: [St Edmundsbury cathedral]; bottom left: ? town hall or assembly rooms; bottom right: abbey gateway.
Borders:
decorative
Arms and heraldry:
municipal: [Top centre].
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1883
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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