Bedfordshire-Harrold-1799 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

13957

Map Date:

1799

Repository reference:

Bedfordshire RO MA 12

Historic county:

Bedfordshire

Town name:

Harrold

Map type:

Enclosure

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP954468

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 9153

Comments on map:

Map is dated 1798-9.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

Richd Gee [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

80 x 97

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, owners, decorative: Coloured cartouches, cherub, etc.

Buildings:

shown

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Bedfordshire RO MA 12.

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: (1) With title and surveyor: garlanded leaves round shield and banner. (2) Well-executed technicolour cherub and roses and ? pen with commissioners' names on oval. (3) Coloured shield and leaves and ribbon round scale.

Symbolic elements:

Cherub, roses, shields, banner, leaves: enliven cartouches.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Map material:

parchment

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1882

1:2500

1:10,560

1899-1900

1:2500

1:10,560