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Dorset-Bridport-1774

CBTM:
19341
Map Date:
[1774]
Repository reference:
BL 456.g.5
Historic county:
Dorset
Town name:
Bridport
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SY465929
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SY 4493
Map title:
'Plan of the borough of Bridport.'
Comments on map:
In John Hutchins, The history and antiquities of the county of Dorset, London: Bowyer & Nicholls, I (1774), f.p. 232.
Scale:
1:3960
Map-maker:
B. Pryce [author], Bayly [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
34.2 x 24.7
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Mills:
watermills
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Known copies of map:
BL 456.g.5, 456.g.6, 189.f.2, G.5879, G.5880, CUL Ll.10.25 [1774]; BOL Gough Maps 6, Fol 30B [proof]; Dorset RO PC/BTB/R3 [1773]; BL 1852.e.19, 193.g.4, G.7445-8, BOL Gough Dorset 1, CUL Ll.10.21 [1796]; BL HLL942.33, L.R.56.c.4, CUL Ll.9.46, TNA [PRO] Library [1863]; BL L.R.414.hh.2, BOL G.A.Dorset c.14/2 [1863/1973: EP Publishing]; BLML Maps 60.e.20, BOL C17:26 b1 [1774/1979: Six Dorset Town Plans, pb Dorset County Library].
Gardens:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Bottom right: south-east view of church.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Dedicee of map:
Richard Brodrepp of Mapperton, Esq., Recorder of the Borough.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1886-7
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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