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Berkshire-Reading-1798

CBTM:
18607
Map Date:
10.8.1798
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] MPE 1/350
Historic county:
Berkshire
Town name:
Reading
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SU714733
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SU 7172
Map title:
[in dedication]: '...The Borough of Reading...'.
Comments on map:
Published at Reading: no publisher named. 'Scroll' has acreages of parishes, population, number of houses, and circumfrence.
Scale:
1:7920
Map-maker:
John Man [author], W.Poole [eng], -, Reading [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
58.6 x 53.4
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
boundaries
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
watermills
Woodland:
orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
manor, Parish
Known copies of map:
BL C.55.i.2, TNA [PRO] MPE 1/350, TNA [PRO] T72/11.
Gardens:
shown
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Antiquities:
Abbey ruins.
Commons:
shown
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
Bob's Mount.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Miscellaneous street furniture:
Milestone [pictorial].
Dedicee of map:
Mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Reading.
Ordnance Survey's
1875-6
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1898
1:2500
1:10,560
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