Brentford-1635 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23339

Map Date:

1635

Repository reference:

RGS England & Wales S.5

Town name:

Brentford, Isleworth, Twickenham, Richmond, Hounslow

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ177777

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 1477

Map title:

'Istelworth Hundred, being the mannor of Sion and one of the seauan hundreds in Comita Middlesex: totally described; with all the townes villages highewayes, brookes, commones, & perticular inclosures, with theyr true formes and contentes of akers roodes and perches and whatsoeuer else remarkable, exectly calculated, wth merhematecall instruments, by angles and figures, according to the rulles of the most famous science of geometry, being one of the Lordshipps, and parte of the reuenues, of that potente peere and truely honoured, Algernoun Percy, Earle of Northumberland, my noble Lorde & Master, Hielde of our Lorde the Kinge in fee farme, by letter patienes bearing date.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from transcript printed by Edward Stanford: dated 1879 in RGS catalogue. Location of original unknown, but presumably is highly coloured manuscript. Extensive notes in cartouches around the map. 'Calculated and described' by Glover.

Scale:

1:10,080

Map-maker:

Moses Glover, Paynter and Architectur [sv, dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

96.7 x 64.0

Number of parts:

1

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills, watermills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

misc: Pictorial shipping in river.

Sanitary and utility information:

conduits: One only.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

London Metropolitan Archives F.44, RGS Eng & Wales S.5 [513602] [1879: Stanford reproduction].

Industry:

timber

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Commons:

shown

Borders:

decorative: Coats of arms.

Symbolic elements:

Some arms on obelisk, with figure of Virtue sitting in front, putti to one side (with open book describing Brentford), and tree and tree-stump behind; dividers above scale, on plinth, with more open books with descriptions.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Arms and heraldry:

principal landowner., royal arms, uncertain: Numerous, in border.

Ferries:

ferry

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown: [Indicated by pictorial signs].

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated

Stated measuerments:

soundings: [River-soundings, in fathoms].

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1864-5

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1863-5

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:2500

1:10,560

1863-5

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:2500

1:10,560

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1866

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1891-4

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1863-5

1:2500

1:10,560

1894-5

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560