Dorset-Cerne Abbas-1768 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23344

Map Date:

1768

Repository reference:

Dorset RO D/PIT/P6

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Cerne Abbas

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST664011

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SY 6598

Map title:

'Plan of the manor of Cerne Abbas in the county of Dorset belonging to the Right Honourable George Lord Rivers surveyed by B. Pryce 1768'.

Comments on map:

Dorset RO list and card with map suggest date is more likely 1798 than 1768, because of Rivers's title. Entry relates to town map: main map is at 1:9504. Parcels numbered: reference elsewhere.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

B. Pryce [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

57.8 x 43.2

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

general legend

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, owners

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Named well.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Known copies of map:

Dorset RO D/PIT/P6.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Borders:

distance-graduated type

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

[Great Barn: with buttresses].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1885

1:2500

1:10,560

1900-01

1:2500

1:10,560