Devonshire-Honition-1780 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18253

Map Date:

1780

Repository reference:

Devon RO 337 add 3B/3/3/9

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Honition

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST164006

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SY 1295

Map title:

'A Plan of the Town and Borough of Honition Taken in the year 1780.'

Comments on map:

From Dunnings of Honition: unclear who commissioned the map, but is evidently an estate map from the greater detail in which 'red' work is shown. Back fences, etc, notably absent at the western end of the town.

Scale:

1:1584*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

89.0 x 49.9

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

ownership: Alchemical symbols for owners bottom right.

Colouring:

land-use, owners, decorative: Direction pointer shaded grey; property owned by whoever commissioned the map is in red.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: All Hallows Chappel and two other buildings (one perhaps the Workhouse, and the other a house on the south-eastern side of the main street) are pictorial.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

Devon RO 337 add 3B/3/3/9 [original]; DRO 337 add 3/3/96 [1882: copy].

Gardens:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Either adjoining owners, or those within mapped area by alchemical symbols].

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

Map material:

parchment

Ordnance Survey's

1887-8

1:2500

1:10,560