Dorset-Wimborne Minster-1774 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19344

Map Date:

? 1774

Repository reference:

BL 456.g.5

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Wimborne Minster

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU001000

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SZ 0499

Map title:

'Plan of Winbourne Minster.'

Comments on map:

In John Hutchins, corrected etc by William Shipp & James Whitworth Hodson, The history and antiquities of the county of Dorset, 3rd edition, London: Nicholls, III (1868), f.p.180. Markedly different in style from the others in this series.

Scale:

1:3168*

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

26.5 x 31.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Interior layout of Collegiate Church shown.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BOL Gough Dorset 2, CUL Ll.10.22 [1803: 2nd ed]; TNA [PRO] Library [1861: (3 vols, 1861-8) I, 180]; BOL G.A.Dorset c.14/3 [1868/1973: E.P. Publishing]; BLML Maps 60.e.20, BOL C17:26 b1 [1774/1979: Six Dorset Town Plans, pb Dorset County Library].

Waterbodies:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1885

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560