Dorset-Corfe Castle-1774 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22602

Map Date:

[1774]

Repository reference:

BL 456.g.5

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Corfe Castle

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SY960820

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SY 9982

Map title:

'Plan of the town and castle of Corfe: surveyed and drawn by Ralph Treswell, in 1586.'

Comments on map:

F.p. 176-7 in John Hutchins, The history and antiquities of the borough of Dorset, London: Bowyer & Nicholls, 1774. Style is 1586 more than 1774. Nearly half the plate is taken up with a separate plan of the castle: the plate is dedicated to Richard Gough, at whose expense it was engraved.

Scale:

1:4356

Map-maker:

Ralph Treswell [sv].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

25 x 32 [plate 48 x 33].

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, (pictorial): With pictorial cannon.

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BOL Gough Maps 6 Fol.69B [1736: manuscript transcript by John Bastard]; BL 578.k.19(1), G.4044, CUL VII.2.46,4 [reproduced in A View of the principal towns, seats... Dorset, 1773]; BL 456.g.5, 456.g.6, 189.f.2, G.5879, G.5880, BOL Gough Dorset 3, CUL Ll.10.25 [in J. Hutchins, History of Dorset, I, 1774]; BL 1852.e.19, 193.g.4, G.7445-8, BOL Gough Dorset 1, CUL Ll.10.21 [in Hutchins, ed 2, 1796]; BL HLL942.33, L.R.56.c.4 [1860s]; CUL XXI.81.17 [photo-litho, 1883, in T. Bond, History & description of Corfe Castle]; BL L.R.414.hh.2, BOL G.A.Dorset c.14/1 [1973: EP Publishing]; BLML Maps 60.e.20, BOL C17:26 b1 [1774/1979: Six Dorset Town Plans, pb Dorset County Library].

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners

Relief:

(pictorial)

Ordnance Survey's

1886

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560