Buckinghamshire-High Wycombe-1822 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20721

Map Date:

? 1822

Repository reference:

Buckinghamshire RO Q/A8 70/30

Historic county:

Buckinghamshire

Town name:

High Wycombe

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU864931

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 9193

Map title:

'Chepping Wycombe Town with the boundaries of the borough.'

Comments on map:

Paper is watermarked J. Whatman 1821. Frontages only.

Scale:

1:2376*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

78.3 x 59.7

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, boundary markers: [Boundary trees].

Known copies of map:

Buckinghamshire RO Q/AB 70/30.

Industry:

textiles

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary for location purposes

Waterbodies:

shown

Borders:

decorative

Ordnance Survey's

1874

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560