Cornwall-St Stephens-1768 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18275

Map Date:

1768

Repository reference:

Devon RO 1737/Z/Z1

Historic county:

Cornwall

Town name:

St Stephens

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX326586

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 3684

Map title:

'A Plan of the Borough of Newport By Launceston, in the Parish of St Stephens in the County of Cornwall, Surveyed in 1748 by John Wynne & Copied in 1768 by Thos. Richardson.'

Comments on map:

Photocopy, with handcolour, presumably mimicking original. Unclear what the purpose or provenance might be.

Scale:

1:1728

Map-maker:

John Wynne [sv], Thomas Richardson [dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

69.2 x 83.7

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries, ownership: Owner-colours.

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, land-use, owners: Roads evidently vignetted sienna; buildings grey; quarry brown; building on top of mound (?) red.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Town Well, another Well.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Penal:

gallows, pillory: Unoccupied.

Woodland:

orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, boundary markers

Known copies of map:

Devon RO 1737/Z/Z1 [photo: origin uncertain].

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1882

1:2500

1:10,560