Dorset-Sherborne-1733 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20528

Map Date:

1733

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 2195 (10)

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Sherborne

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST638164

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 6718

Map title:

[Main map:] 'A map of the Right Honourable William Lord Digby's Manor of Sherborne in the County of Dorset 1733.' [Inset:] 'Plan of the town of Sherborne'.

Comments on map:

Inset on a much larger map, photographed by Ordnance Survey (ref A.O. 146) when in the possession of Major F.J.B. Wingfield-Digby of Sherborne Castle. Seems to have been reduced to 40 % or less of original scale (scale of main map is now 1 inch to 13 chains: 1 inch to 5 chains, or larger, would fit the main map's writing better), but Catalogue of photographs of old cadastral and other plans of Great Britain, Southampton: Ordnance Survey, 1935, only gives the scale of the photograph, 1:10,560. Inset only enlarged by about 1.25. Mapmaker named, but illegible.

Scale:

1:3168

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

45 x 36

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

other: Shading of Lord Digby's and other houses.

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 2195(10), Dorset RO Photocopy 9/2 [OS photo, 1935]; BL X.805/1775, BOL G.A.Dorset 4o 137 [1981: endpapers in J.H.P. Gibb, The book of Sherborne, Buckingham: Barracuda Books].

Gardens:

shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

misc: Pictorial haystacks.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1886

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560