Cheshire-Chester-1789 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20029

Map Date:

1789

Repository reference:

Cheshire RO EDD 12/1

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:

'... Survey of the ancient & loyal city of Chester...'

Comments on map:

The Cheshire RO copy has a manuscript extension on top, 89 x 45, showings lands in St Thomas. This may have inspired the two pictorial maps [Exeter 20024-5].

Scale:

1:2772

Map-maker:

Samuel Weston [sv], Jas Hunter [eng, pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

89.2 x 61.8

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

wharfs, misc: Old and New Cranes.

Sanitary and utility information:

water works: ['Water Engine'].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

customs, internal revenue

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls: With named towers.

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, trade halls, markets: [Linen and Wool Halls].

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses: Not so described, but includes starting chairs, including that for Aged Horses.

Woodland:

orchards: Parks, gardens and orchards all rather similar.

Known copies of map:

BLML K.Top.9.5.2.Tab., BOL C17.a.2, Cheshire RO EDD 12/1.

Industry:

food/drink, rope walk, warehousing, timber, misc: Cheese Warehouse; one timber yard has timber strewn about.

Gardens:

shown: Includes Nuns Gardens. Parks, gardens and orchards all rather similar.

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground: Parks, gardens and orchards all rather similar.

Service and professional:

newspaper offices: ['Printing Office'].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial shipping in river, and sailing barge on canal.

Arms and heraldry:

royal arms, municipal, uncertain: [Royal is Prince of Wales feathers and Hoi y Soit...]; third coat of arms could be bishopric.

Dedicee of map:

HRH George, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall & Rothesay and Earl of Chester, &c, &c.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown: Including 'Hotel'.

Tenement boundaries group:

generalised/schematic: Unclear how 'realistic'.

Ordnance Survey's

1871-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560