Cheshire-Wallasey-1656 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20043

Map Date:

1656

Repository reference:

Cheshire RO D4938/1

Historic county:

Cheshire

Town name:

Wallasey

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ295925

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 3590

Map title:

'A map of the mannor of Bidstone in Wirehall, in Chesheire in England. Admeasured by Thomas Taylor'.

Comments on map:

From a volume of surveys, of uncertain provenance. Scale in perches. Seems slightly schematic.

Scale:

1:9504

Map-maker:

Thomas Taylor [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

70.7 x 55.7

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

owners, decorative

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial): [Post-mill].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

Cheshire RO D4938/1 [photo].

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Arms and heraldry:

uncertain: At top of cartouche: owner?

Map material:

parchment

Ordnance Survey's

1878

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560