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Cornwall-West Looe-1868

CBTM:
23384
Map Date:
1868
Repository reference:
West Devon Record Office 347/96
Historic county:
Cornwall
Town name:
West Looe
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
SX252531
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SX 2555
Map title:
'West Looe in the County of Cornwall
Comments on map:
This is more refined that the undated map of East Looe [Exeter 23383], but there are similarities of style, and paper: watermarked J. Whatman 1867. Tithe numbers seem to be reused. Neatly executed.
Scale:
1:1188
Map-maker:
John Andrew, Surveyor [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
64.2 x 80.2
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, roads, water, other: Sale lots.
Road names:
I
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Frontages.
Water transport infrastructure:
quays
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Known copies of map:
Plymouth Archives 347/96 [original]; Plymouth Archives 347/97 [crude derivative].
Stated measuerments:
other: A few frontage lengths.
Tenement boundaries group:
very incomplete
Ordnance Survey's
1880-1
1:2500
1:10,560
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