Worcestershire-Worcester-1764 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23156

Map Date:

[1764]

Repository reference:

BL 290.f.37

Historic county:

Worcestershire

Town name:

Worcester

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO851547

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 8853

Map title:

'A plan of the city of Worcester, with references.'

Comments on map:

F.p. 237 of Valentine Green, A survey of Worcester, Worcester: Gamidge, 1764. The 'references' are in the text on pp 237-9: letters used for cathedral and precincts, numbers for everything else, including street names: informative, provided that map and letterpress are kept together.

Scale:

1:7920*

Map-maker:

V. Green [dr], R. Hancock [eng], S. Gamidge, Prior's Head, Worcester [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

18.8 x 15.5 [map: plate 19.8 x 16.3].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Discreet cross-hatching for public, etc, buildings.

Turnpikes:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Sanitary and utility information:

water works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Public/administrative boundaries:

misc, boundary markers: City; ['Liberty-post'].

Known copies of map:

BL 290.f.37, BL G.15978, BOL Gough Worcs 2, CUL S474.d.76.1.

Industry:

furniture/pottery

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa

Antiquities:

Fort Royal; Site of Battle of Worcester; monastic sites, town ditch.

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [Meadows belonging to Dean and Chapter].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Rococco; seem to be Hop-poles to right.

Symbolic elements:

Hop-poles: to right of cartouche.

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Machine for weighing Carriages.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial sailing vessels in river and at quay.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal: [Bottom right: with rococco surround].

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

generalised/schematic

Ordnance Survey's

1886

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560