Dorset-Shaftesbury-1615 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19343

Map Date:

? 1615

Repository reference:

BL 456.g.5

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Shaftesbury

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST862229

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST862229

Map title:

'Typus oppidi Shastoniensis in comitatu Dorset (1615)'.

Comments on map:

In Thomas Hutchings, corrected etc by William Shipp & James Whitworth Hodson, The history and antiquities of the county of Dorset, 3rd edition, London: Nicholls, III (1868), f.p.1. This seems to be an engraved transcript of a 1615 map: see title, and general style.

Scale:

1:4752*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

30.2 x 22.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, walls: Named, etc, buildings mostly pictorial; wall by battlement effect.

Places of Worship:

(pictorial), Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative: 'Gould Hill'.

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Markets and exchanges:

cross: [Fish and butter crosses].

Known copies of map:

BOL Gough Dorset 2, CUL Ll.10.22, Dorset RO [1803]; BL HLL942.33, L.R.56.c.4, TNA [PRO] Library [1868]; BL L.R.414.hh.2, BOL G.A.Dorset c.14/3 [1863/1973: EP Publishing]; BLML Maps 60.e.20, BOL C17:26 b1 [1774/1979: Six Dorset Town Plans, pb Dorset County Library].

Antiquities:

Abbey.

Landowners and occupiers:

notable residents

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

Ordnance Survey's

1885

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560