Cumberland-Keswick-1787 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19703

Map Date:

10.2.1787

Repository reference:

BLML c.26.b.21

Historic county:

Cumberland

Town name:

Keswick

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NY265235

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NY 2622

Map title:

'Map of Derwentwater and its environs.'

Comments on map:

Plate 6, f.p.86, in James Clarke, land-surveyor, A survey of the lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire..., pub author, Penrith & London [& numerous others], 1787. The mapping of the town, which lacks text, is definitely an appendage to the mapping of the countryside.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

James Clarke, Penrith [sv, pb], S.J. Neele, 352 Strand, London [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

132.0 x 47.5

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 27.c.38, 190.f.14, CUL Lib.1.78.8.

Gardens:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary for location purposes

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Drawing or masonic instruments at bottom of cartouche: masonic evidences not as apparent as on Exeter 19702.

Symbolic elements:

Drawing or masonic instruments: at bottom of cartouche.

Tenement boundaries group:

very incomplete

Ordnance Survey's

1862

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560