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Durham-Jarrow-1817

CBTM:
19938
Map Date:
? 1817
Repository reference:
Durham RO D/XP 91
Historic county:
Durham
Town name:
Jarrow
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NZ339652
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NZ 3067
Map title:
'Plan of Jarrow Estate in the County of Durham belonging to Thos & Robt Brown Esqrs.'
Comments on map:
Dated 1817 in Durham RO list, but can't find it on map. Estate map, with pictorial buildings, arable/grass colour, pictorial hedges, etc.
Scale:
1:1584
Map-maker:
T. Brown, Alfred House, Camberwell [dr].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
117 x 105
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use, decorative
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial, public buildings emphasised: All pictorial: include Pitmens Houses.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Durham RO D/XP 91.
Gardens:
shown: [Pitmens Gardens].
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative, pictorial 'realistic': (1) Title on plinth, pointed to by Britannia-like female, with ships in background, and attenuated tree-trunk, (2) pediment on marble piers, with phoenix and globes, round 'Contents of the Farms'.
Extractive activity:
coal: With Engines and Stath.
Symbolic elements:
Brittania-like figure points to title; dividers and pen: straddle ruler-like scale.
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Three pictorial ships in river. Direction pointer has 'wings'. Ruler-like scale, straddled by dividers and pen.
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
ballast hills
Ordnance Survey's
1856-8
1:2500
1:10,560
1895
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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