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Dorset-Sturminster Newton-1885

CBTM:
23365
Map Date:
1885
Repository reference:
Dorset RO D/PIT/P34
Historic county:
Dorset
Town name:
Sturminster Newton
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
ST786142
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
ST 8210
Map title:
'Map of the Manor of Sturminster-Newton-Castle in the County of Dorset 1885'.
Comments on map:
Most fields numbered: no reference available. Main map at 1:4752: town at 1:2376. In unusual stiff cloth, with more of the property of paper than usual.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
A.H. Green, Surveyor, Blandford [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
108 x 119 [overall: enlargement maximum 21 x 61].
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
ownership: Pitt-Rivers and other property.
Colouring:
owners
Building names:
clergy residences, outside built-up area only
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished: Only for Pitt-Rivers property: all other buildings are black.
Mills:
watermills, (unspecified type)
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
police
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Woodland:
shown, orchards, misc: [Including woods and plantations], marshy symbol for osiers.
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish
Known copies of map:
Dorset RO D/PIT/P34.
Railways:
routes, goods depots, named, passenger stations
River and foreshore features:
springs
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Landowners and occupiers:
glebe, main owner only
Waterbodies:
shown
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Crosses:
cross
Map material:
tracing linen
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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