Buckinghamshire-Buckingham-1770 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20646

Map Date:

24.3.1770

Repository reference:

BLML Maps *1530 (4)

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:

'The town of Buckingham.'

Comments on map:

Inset on 'The county of Buckingham, surveyed in MDCCLVI, VII, and VIII and engraved by Thomas Jeffreys, Geographer to His Majesty, MDCCLXX.'

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

Thomas Jeffreys [eng], A. Dury [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

23.5 x 27.5 [inset only].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 1530(4), BOL Gough Maps Buckinghamshire 3, Gough Maps 81, Buckinghamshire RO AR 63/71, CUL Atlas.2.77.7,i [1770]; BOL C17a.2, CUL Maps.52.78.1- , Maps.R.b.9, RGS 1.C.75; [1788] BLML Maps 1530(6); RGS Eng & Wales D.6 [1812]; TNA [PRO] Library [in VCH Bucks 3, 475].

Industry:

misc: Fulling Mill.

Antiquities:

Castle Hill.

Relief:

prominent hills

Ordnance Survey's

1879

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898-9

1:2500

1:10,560