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Dorset-Shaftesbury-1817

CBTM:
23372
Map Date:
6.1817
Repository reference:
Dorset RO Photocopy 485
Historic county:
Dorset
Town name:
Shaftesbury
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
ST862229
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
ST 8324
Map title:
'A Map of the Borough of Shaftesbury. June 1817.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from touched-up photocopy: location of original uncertain. Areas numbered: no reference available.
Scale:
1:1584
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
102 x 73
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
Buildings, boundaries, other: Tenure; property not held of Earl of Rosebery numbered in red.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: One church is pictorial.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses
Woodland:
orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough
Known copies of map:
Dorset RO Photocopy 485.
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Landowners and occupiers:
main owner only: [Earl of Rosebery; freeholds and leaseholds indicated].
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
pounds/pinfolds
Estate boundary ownership:
apparently incomplete
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1885
1:2500
1:10,560
1900
1:2500
1:10,560
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