Cheshire-Chester-1720 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20020

Map Date:

? 1720

Repository reference:

Cheshire RO D4441/1

Historic county:

Cheshire

Town name:

Chester

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ405605

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 4166

Map title:

'A plan of the city of Chester'.

Comments on map:

Dated c.1720 in Cheshire RO lists. Not over-sophisticated.

Scale:

1:1584

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

65.2 x 48.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

customs

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): [Water Tower].

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

Cheshire RO D.4441/1.

Gardens:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

At bottom of map: 'The Road to Holly-head', 1:126,720, evidently derived from Ogilby.

Borders:

distance-graduated type: In chains.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial ship and eight-oared boat in river.

Walls, embankments, etc:

Walls round orchards, etc: 'double-brick' effect.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1871-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560