Buckinghamshire-Buckingham-1729 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22216

Map Date:

? 1729

Repository reference:

BL G.3609

Historic county:

Buckinghamshire

Town name:

Buckingham

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP695338

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 6933

Map title:

'Buckingam.'

Comments on map:

On fol.C39 of Cantabrigia Illustrata, of het verheerlykt Cambridge, Amsterdam: Gerrit Tielenburg, n.d. [? 1730]. A straightforward derivative from Speed [Exeter 18430].

Scale:

1:8738*

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

12.7 x 11.7 [map: plate 13.3 x 12.3].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BL G.3609(2), BOL Gough Maps 183 [1730: G.Tielenburg]; BOL G14/17.21 [1978: Gordon Wyatt, Maps of Bucks, Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1978, p.39].

Gardens:

shown

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Ploughing on left side, grazing animals and man with stick on right side.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1879

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898-9

1:2500

1:10,560