Bedfordshire-Toddington-1581 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20665

Map Date:

1581

Repository reference:

Bedfordshire Archives X.1/102

Historic county:

Bedfordshire

Town name:

Toddington

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL009288

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 0277

Map title:

'Bedforde shire. A surveigh there of the Maner of Toddington...'

Comments on map:

Lists of tenants at bottom of map.

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

Randulph Agas [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

270 x 270 [approximate].

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, land-use

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Markets and exchanges:

cross, (pictorial)

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BL Add MSS 38065 [original]; Bedfordshire RO X.1/102 (A-U)) [copy].

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Copyholders, etc].

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Faces above and below, and naked figures around cartouche.

Symbolic elements:

Faces, naked figures: surround cartouche.

Map material:

parchment

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1880-1

1:2500

1:10,560

1899-1900

1:2500

1:10,560