Bedfordshire-Woburn-1821 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20669

Map Date:

1821

Repository reference:

Bedfordshire Archives R.1/78

Historic county:

Bedfordshire

Town name:

Woburn

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP949332

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 9335

Map title:

'Plan of the parish of Woburn... belonging to His Grace the Duke of Bedford

Comments on map:

All parcels numbered, and some named.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

Thos Evans [? sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

111.5 x 131.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, owners: Woods; Bedford buildings carmine, other owners' grey; non-Bedford land.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Bedfordshire RO R.1/78.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1880-2

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560