Devonshire-Ottery St Mary-1774 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22326

Map Date:

20.9.1774

Repository reference:

CUL MS Plans 696

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Ottery St Mary

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SY099955

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SY 1295

Map title:

'A correct plan of the town of Ottery St Mary in the county of Devon with that part of the River Otter from Caddhay Bridges leading down to the New Wear of Sam Taylor Esq taken by the brother of Amator Piscandi September 20th 1774'.

Comments on map:

CUL cards attribute to ? Thomas Boutflower. The map has pictorial tendencies, and may not be strictly to scale; is it a holiday souvenir?

Scale:

1:1056*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

60.7 x 47.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, other: Banding of fields: seems 'ornamental'.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

CUL MS Plans 696.

Gardens:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

notable residents

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

'Gentlemen Anglers' by river, fishing, with bubbles issuing from their mouths, e.g. 'Sea monster, a sea monster' and 'I shall be loaded today'.

Ordnance Survey's

1887-8

1:2500

1:10,560