Durham-Consett-1781 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

16258

Map Date:

1781

Repository reference:

Durham University Library (Manuscripts) [Halmote Court, no. 7]

Historic county:

Durham

Town name:

Consett

Map type:

Enclosure

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NZ098518

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NZ 1155

Comments on map:

Lanchester parish enclosure map. Act names Jeremiah Dixon, Cockfield, Co. Durham, as surveyor. Grainger does Parts I and VII, and probably II, V and VIII; Lambert does the others, dating them 1779.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

Joseph Grainger and I. Lambert [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

172 x 203, 156 x 137, 176 x 153, 149 x 135, 209 x 161, 183 x 143, 122 x 127, 84 x 65

Number of parts:

8

Colouring:

roads, water, owners

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Known copies of map:

Durham University Library (Manuscripts) [Halmote Court, no. 7], Halmote Court, copy plans, (a) no.9.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Symbolic elements:

Globes: as compasses on parts I, III and VI. Bishop of Durham's arms on III, with mitre, sword and crook, with ? olive branches and ? ram's head. Royal arms on VI. Sun, wind, rake and scythe on IV. Olive branches and rushes on I.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1857

1:2500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560