Cambridgeshire-Cambridge-1763
CBTM:
21173
Map Date:
1763
Repository reference:
Cambridge City Library, Cambridgeshire collection, 1763A
Historic county:
Cambridgeshire
Town name:
Cambridge
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TL449587
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TL 4459
Map title:
'Plan of Cambridge, 1763.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from photocopy. From Cantabrigia depicta..., 1763.
Scale:
1:9504*
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
18.5 x 14.0 [overall: map 18.5 x 11.5].
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
other: Old city limits.
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries: Hachures round Castle area.
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
BL 8364.aa.35, BL 10368.bb.3(3), G.16196(1), BOL G.A.Gen.top.16o 215 (3), BOL Gough Maps 2, Fol.21, CUL Cam.d.763.1,2 & 3, Cambridge City Library 1763.A [photo], Cambridge City Library C.46.4 [1763]; Cam.d.790.5, Maps.53(2).76.1, Maps.53(2).76.2, Views.x.1/14, Views.x.5/9 [1763?]; BL 731.b.28, 577.c.13(1) [1776]; BL 731.b.25(1), G.16196(2), BOL Gough Camb.14 [1785: in A concise & accurate description of... Cambridge]; BL 273.b.5, BOL Gough Camb.14, Gough Camb. 70 [1790].
Leisure and entertainment:
libraries/newsrooms
Parkland:
botanic gardens
Antiquities:
'Bounds of the Old City': + at corners of presumably the Roman town; Pythagoras School.
Waterbodies:
shown
Arms and heraldry:
university colleges, municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1885-6
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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