Dorset-Weymouth-1774 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22622

Map Date:

[1774]

Repository reference:

BL G.5879

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Melcombe Regis, Weymouth

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SY680790

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SY 6382

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.'

Comments on map:

In John Hutchins, The history and antiquities of the county of Dorset, Vol. I, f.p. 400, London: Bowyer & Nichols, 1774. 'Vol. I. p.400', top right.

Scale:

1:4500

Map-maker:

Hall [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

38.3 x 25.3 [printed area: plate 40.0 x 25.8]

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised: Not markedly generalised; public, etc, buildings in light stipple, so less obvious than 'ordinary' ones.

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours, misc: Platform at ye Look out.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries: [Forts].

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Known copies of map:

BOL Gough Maps 6 Fol 78B [MS]; BOL Gough Maps 6 Fol 78B [proof]; BL 456.g.5, 456.g.6, 189.f.2, G.5879, G.5880, BOL Gough Dorset 3, G.A.Fol.A.307, CUL Ll.10.25; BL 1852.e.19, 193.g.4, G.7445-8 [1796: in Hutchins, History of Dorset]; BLML Maps 60.e.20, BOL C17:26 b.1 [1979: in 6 town plans...]; BOL G.A.Dorset 8o 310 [1976: in E. Ricketts, The buildings of Old Weymouth, pb Longmans of Weymouth].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore, foreshore material specified

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc, misc: Publick Rooms.

Antiquities:

Priory [sic].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

shown partially, cliffs

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial ships and bathing machines in sea.

Arms and heraldry:

uncertain: [Bottom centre: presumably dedicees].

Walls, embankments, etc:

Some pictorial fences and hedges.

Dedicee of map:

William Chafin Grove of Waddon, Gabriel Stenard Esq [plate engraved at their expense].

Tenement boundaries group:

less built-up parts only

Ordnance Survey's

1863

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900-1

1:2500

1:10,560