Cumberland-Carlisle-1794 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19200

Map Date:

[1794]

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] Library, BL Add. MS 9462 fol.144

Historic county:

Cumberland

Town name:

Carlisle

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NY400460

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NY 4155

Map title:

'Plan of the city of Carlisle and places adjacent.'

Comments on map:

In William Hutchinson, The history of the county of Cumberland, Carlisle: Law, etc, 1794, 2 vols, II, f.p. 585. Scale seems to be drastically compressed in the north-west part.

Scale:

1:3168

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

31.7 x 39.8 [map: plate 32.2 x 40.5].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Mix of detailed and not-so-detailed.

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: Also chapter house, and foundations of old cathedral nave.

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls: Keep indicated in castle; Guard House on south side of market place.

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BL 1786.d.9, HLR942.78, 190.b.13, G.3486, 11630.d.17(2), G.3487, BOL Gough Cumberland 3, BOL Art.Seld.CC 84, Carlisle Public Library A.95, TNA [PRO] Library [original]; BOL G.A.Cumb.4o 30 [1796]; Carlisle Public Library [folder, as '1797']; BL Add.MSS. 9462, fol. 144 [date uncertain: full-plate copy]; BL 290.e.35, G.3192(1), 578.c.36, BOL G.A.Cumb.4o 48, Carlisle Public Library, A.24 [1811, in Jollie's Cumberland Guide & Directory, pt 1]; BOL G.A.Cumb.4o 80 [1811/1973: in Carlisle, a pictorial study: Dalesman Books: attrib Robert Carlyle]; BL X.802/2979, BOL G.A.Cumb.4o 83/2 [EP Publishing & Cumberland County Lib, 1974].

Gardens:

shown: [Variety of patterns].

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Trees behind title; to right of title are two men, one pointing and explaining something to the other; below the title a third is either reaching or writing a slab with 'ICON...RO...LEGCO...' on it [garbling of Roman inscription?].

Symbolic elements:

Trees, men pointing and explaining, slab [?Roman inscription]: around title.

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

relict industry: Old Brewery.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1863-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560