Cornwall-St Ives-1824 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19877

Map Date:

1824

Repository reference:

BLML M.T.6.D.2(8)

Historic county:

Cornwall

Town name:

St Ives

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SW517404

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SW 5538

Map title:

'Plans of estates in the parish of St Ives (recently purchased) Cornwall belonging to Sir Christr Hawkins Bart By Chas Moody 1824.'

Comments on map:

Seven sheets of plans: title is on sheet 7. There are two versions of the mapping of the town, on sheets 1 and 5, and the record here is a conflation of the two. Scale is expressed both in feet and 'Cornish Chains each of 72 feet': measured as 1 inch to 144 feet (1:1800). One version has a magnetic variation diagram, undated.

Scale:

1:1800

Map-maker:

Charles Moody [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

71.0 x 52.0

Number of parts:

2

Colouring:

Buildings, water

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

piers, wharfs

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

customs

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals: [Batteries].

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BL Maps M.T.6.d.2(8).

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Magnetic data:

diagram, value (undated)

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely

Ordnance Survey's

1876

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560