Dorset-Wimborne Minster-1775 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22607

Map Date:

? 1775

Repository reference:

Dorset RO Ph. 676

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Wimborne Minster

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SU001000

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SZ 0499

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy of uncertain provenance: accompanying typescript is 'Wimborne borough survey 1775 by John Woodward', and describes those areas which are numbered.

Scale:

1:4752*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

34 x 47 [extract].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Infilling seems to be ownership-related.

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

Dorset RO Ph.676 [photocopy]; BL X.805/4633, BOL G.A.Dorset 4o 142 ['c.1800': rear endpaper of David Popham, The book of Wimborne, Buckingham: Barracuda, 1983: dated c.1800: seems to be from Dorset County Library].

Gardens:

shown: [Ornamental].

Landowners and occupiers:

notable residents: [Incomplete, especially in built-up part; some tenure information].

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete

Ordnance Survey's

1885

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560