Dorset-Wareham-1774 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19340

Map Date:

[1774]

Repository reference:

BL 456.g.5

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Wareham

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SY923873

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SY 9690

Comments on map:

In John Hutchins, The history and antiquities of the county of Dorset, London: Bowyer & Nicholls, I (1774), f.p.15.

Scale:

1:3168

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

23.0 x 32.0

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Including 'Former' churches.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BOL Gough Maps 6, Fol 54B [MS version]; BL 456.g.5, 456.g.6, 189.f.2, G.5879, G.5880, CUL Ll.10.25 [1774]; BL 1852.e.19, 193.g.4, G.7445-8, BOL Gough Dorset 1, BOL Gough Maps 6, Fol 54B, CUL Ll.10.21, Maps 17.G.31 [1796]; BL HLL942.33, L.R.56.c.4, TNA [PRO] Library [1861]; BL L.R.414.hh.2, BOL G.A.Dorset c.14/2 [1863/1973: EP Publishing]; BLML Maps 60.e.20, BOL C17:26 b1 [1774/1979: Six Dorset Town Plans, pb Dorset County Library].

River and foreshore features:

misc: Salmon Fishery.

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

Priory, town ditches.

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

prominent hills

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial single-masted vessels in river.

Arms and heraldry:

dedicee of map, municipal

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

kennels

Dedicee of map:

John Calcraft, Esq.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1886-7

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560