Devonshire-Exeter-1806 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22899

Map Date:

19.4.1806

Repository reference:

BL 290.a.32

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Exeter

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX921924

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 9392

Map title:

'Exeter'.

Comments on map:

F.p. [1] in Alexander Jenkins, The history and description of the city of Exeter and its environs, ancient and modern..., Exeter: P. Hedgeland, London: Longman, etc, 1806. Top centre: 'Engrav'd for Alexr. Jenkins's History of Exeter'. Table of churches allocates them to wards, but no ward boundaries shown. In area of cover and content it differs noticably from other maps of the period.

Scale:

1:15,840

Map-maker:

J. Hayman [sv, dr], B. Baker & D. Wright, Islington [dr], P. Hedgeland, High St, Exeter [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

23.5 x 21.3

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Rural seats shown pictorially.

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Aquaducts to the City Conduits [sic: from Lions Holt].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals, mental, workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish, misc: City: noted at intervals as 'Exon', 'Devon'

Known copies of map:

BL 290.a.32, G.1796, BOL Gough Devon 28, CUL L1.16.4 [in A. Jenkins, History and Description of the City of Exeter (1806)].

Industry:

textiles, uncertain: Factory; textiles includes pictorial tenters.

River and foreshore features:

misc: Weirs.

Gardens:

shown: [Extensive: some named].

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Danes Castle, Old Fort, crosses [with +].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Flattened gothick arch, over title.

Relief:

prominent hills

Borders:

keyboard type: No 'black keys'.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown: Various 'Yard'.

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Milestones [pictorial]: 'One Mile from Exe Bridge' [at Exwick], 'One Mile from Larkbear Exeter' [south of Topsham barracks].

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Ordnance Survey's

1875-6

1:500

1:2500