Carmarthenshire-Carmarthen-1786 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23082

Map Date:

1786

Repository reference:

Carmarthen RO Cawdor Maps 219

Historic county:

Carmarthenshire

Town name:

Carmarthen

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SN412001

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SN 4114

Map title:

'Street plan and outlines of the County Borough Town of Carmarthen with a particular survey and description of the property of John Vaughan of Golden Grove Esqr within the said town by T. Lewis 1786'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy reduced to about 40 % of original dimensions. Refence to Vaughan properties at foot of map: the other parts of the town are incompletely mapped.

Scale:

1:1188

Map-maker:

T. Lewis [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

145 x 65

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

ownership: Vaughan properties.

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, owners

Road names:

partly

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Vaughan properties in detail: others as frontages only.

Mills:

watermills

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds: [Old Bowling Green].

Known copies of map:

Carmarthen RO Cawdor Maps 219 [original: ufp]; Carmarthen RO open-access photocopy.

Industry:

lime/cement, metallurgical processing, furniture/pottery, textiles

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary for location purposes

Relief:

cliffs

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete: Vaughan properties only.

Ordnance Survey's

1885

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560