Cornwall-Helston-1838 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22328

Map Date:

1838

Repository reference:

CUL Maps.R.b.60

Historic county:

Cornwall

Town name:

Helston

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SW658277

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SW6726

Map title:

'Plan of the town lands in the borough of Helston Cornwall shewing the property of the Revd. John Rogers 1838'.

Comments on map:

Fields numbered: no cadastre to hand, but might be a variation on the tithe survey, as town seems 'complete'.

Scale:

1:1584

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

94 x 119

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, owners, decorative: 'Ordinary' buildings grey, what are presumably Rogers's are carmine.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

uncertain: Possibly borough.

Known copies of map:

CUL Maps.R.b.60.

Gardens:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary for location purposes

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

pictorial 'realistic': To left: men fishing; to right buildings, with ladies with poke-bonnets and parasols.

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Monuments:

Monuments

Estate boundary ownership:

fragmentary: [Mr Rogers].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1876

1:2500

1:10,560