Berkshire-Newbury-1757 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22473

Map Date:

1757

Repository reference:

Berkshire RO D/EZ 80/10

Historic county:

Berkshire

Town name:

Newbury

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SU471671

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 4870

Map title:

'A plan, survey and admeasurement of St Bartholomew's Hospital with the houses & lands thereunto belonging situate lying & being within the Borough & Parish of Newbury in the County of Berks

Comments on map:

Covers the town, though not at all refined. Reference to acreages and descriptions for hospital lands only.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

Andrew Northcroft, Surveyor [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

137.5 x 74.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, owners

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: A few 'public' ones are pictorial.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

Berkshire RO D/EZ 80/10.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom left: elevation and plan of the 'hospital' [almshouses].

Borders:

decorative

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Dividers above scale.

Tenement boundaries group:

generalised/schematic

Ordnance Survey's

1874

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560