Cornwall-Torpoint-1774 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23147

Map Date:

? 1774

Repository reference:

BL X.709/30511

Historic county:

Cornwall

Town name:

Torpoint

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX439551

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 4555

Comments on map:

Reduced copy (not compensated for scale or dimensions), f.p. 28 in Gladys and F.L. Harris, The making of a Cornish town: Torpoint and neighbourhood through two hundred years, Redruth: Institute of Cornish Studies, 1976. A reference, reproduced on p.28, suggests date is 1774. Original in Carew Pole MSS.

Scale:

1:2200

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

26 x 18

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme

Buildings:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

piers, quays

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BL X.709/30511, BOL G.A.Cornw.8o 479 [1976, reduced: in G. & F.L. Harris, The making of a Cornish town, Redruth: Institute of Cornish studies, 1976].

Industry:

ship yards, rope walk

Gardens:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom left and right: elevations and sections of houses.

Stated measuerments:

other: Some laid-out street widths.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1857-9

1:2500

1:10,560

1884

1:2500

1:10,560

1892-3

1:2500

1:10,560