Cheshire-Chester-1777
CBTM:
19657
Map Date:
1777
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 1720 (17)
Historic county:
Cheshire
Town name:
Chester
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SJ405665
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SJ 4166
Map title:
'A plan of the city of Chester'.
Comments on map:
Inset on Burdett's 1:63,360 map of Cheshire, 1777: record refers only to the inset. Note bottom right says that Burdett engraved the roads, meres and commons, and the rest was engraved 'by T. Billinge of Liverpool'.
Scale:
1:8316
Map-maker:
P.P. Burdett [sv].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
32 x 32 [maximum].
Number of parts:
1
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Emphasised buildings not named.
Canals:
shown
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only: But not named, even the cathedral.
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 1720(17), BOL (E)C17:20(6), CUL Atlas.2.77.7,5- [1777]; BLML Maps 1720(1), BOL C17a.2, CUL Maps.aa.54.79.1, RGS Eng & Wales D.7, Stockport L/1628, also Map 1377 [1794]; BOL C17:20 c.1, CUL Atlas.5.97.269, Maps.aa.19.G.12-, TNA [PRO] Library [Harley/Laxton facsimile, 1974].
Gardens:
shown
Relief:
prominent hills
Ordnance Survey's
1871-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1898
1:2500
1:10,560
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