Dorset-Shaftesbury-1831 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18837

Map Date:

? 1831

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] T72/11 [I]

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Shaftesbury

Map type:

boundaries

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST862229

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 8324

Comments on map:

Enlargement from Ordnance Surveyors Drawing with additional names, with urban detail re-pencilled and some names in ink. The coloured boundaries are unusual for a pencil enlargement. Briggs may just have added the boundaries, rather than drawn the whole thing.

Scale:

1:10,560

Map-maker:

? Joseph Briggs [dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

63.0 x 49.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

boundaries

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] T72/11 [I].

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

At least one 'unfinished' building noted; letters may indicate peripheral cottages, etc.

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1885

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560