Buckinghamshire-Slough-1773 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20727

Map Date:

1773

Repository reference:

Buckinghamshire RO PR.214/28/1

Historic county:

Buckinghamshire

Town name:

Slough

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SU975800

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 9379

Map title:

'A map of part of the parish of Upton cum Chalvey...1773.'

Comments on map:

Unclear what it was prepared for: main interest is in the showing of open-field strips. Scale is about 1 inch to 4.6 chains (about 1:3640), which seems odd.

Scale:

1:3600

Map-maker:

T.F. & E. Webb [sv, dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

114.5 x 73.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, uncertain: Possible township boundary.

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

Buckinghamshire RO PR 214/28/1 [original] Buckinghamshire RO D/BASM/76/30 [1853 copy by George Southwood].

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Map material:

parchment

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1874

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560