Dorset-Poole-1751 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21125

Map Date:

1751

Repository reference:

Poole Local History Centre

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Poole

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SZ 011906

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SZ 0593

Map title:

'A plan of the county and town of Poole.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy: scale and demensions conjecturally compensated. Short historical-administrative note on extensive foreshore.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

Thomas Reekes and William Tucker [sv], J. Mynde [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

60 x 45

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only: [Great Cellar or King's Hall].

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

navigation aids, quays: [Pictorial beacons].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates: [Fort].

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Public/administrative boundaries:

boundary markers: [Only one].

Known copies of map:

BLML K.Top.12.9.1, BOL Gough Maps Dorset 9 [originals]; Dorset RO Photocopy 259.

Industry:

food/drink, ship yards, rope walk, timber, misc: Faggot House.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore, foreshore material specified: [Including Ouzey Ground, Oyster Bank {shelly)].

Gardens:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

notable residents

Borders:

decorative: Picture-frame style.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial boats, sailing barges and shipping in water.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ferries:

ferry: ['The Pafsage Boat, drawn by a Rope'].

Cemeteries:

shown: [Plague burial ground in swamp].

Dedicee of map:

'Impensis Pet. Thompson eq. aur. 1751.' [Sir Peter Thompson, a resident.]

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete

Ordnance Survey's

1886

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560