Dorset-Sherborne-1814 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22620

Map Date:

1.10.1814

Repository reference:

BL G.7446

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Sherborne

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST638164

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 6718

Map title:

'Plan of Sherborne.'

Comments on map:

In John Hutchins, The history and antiquities of the county of Dorset, 2nd edition, [ed] Richard Gough, Vol. IV, f.p. 74-5, London: Nichols, 1815. Below reference: '1802. Reduced by Jos. Ayres, from a plan of Sherborne taken from actual survey by J. Ladd, 1735, & now in the possession of the Governors of the Alms House.'

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

J. Nichols & Co., Red Lion Passage [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

47.2 x 38.2 [printed area: plate 50.3 x 40.5].

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

Buildings: Houses destroyed since 1735 and not rebuilt.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences, important buildings only

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

conduits

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Abbey with piers.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

orchards: By annotation.

Known copies of map:

BOL Gough Maps 6 Fol.92 [proof: title blank]; BOL G.A.Fol.A.310 [in J. Hutchins, The history of Dorset, 2nd ed, corrected by R. Gough, Vol IV, pb J. Nichols, 1814]; BLML Maps 60.e.20, BOL C17:26 b.1 [1979: Six Dorset Town Plans, pb Dorset County Library].

Industry:

textiles, timber

Antiquities:

Monastic sites and remains, sites of crosses; finds of human remains.

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners, industrial owners: [A few, including silk mills].

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Top right: ground plan of Sherborne Castle.

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Houses demolished since 1735 and not replaced.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Scale-bar at angle.

Walls, embankments, etc:

Tree'd hedgerows.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1886

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560