Durham-Sunderland-1790 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19982

Map Date:

? 1790

Repository reference:

Sunderland Library local studies

Historic county:

Durham

Town name:

Sunderland

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NZ406572

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NZ 3458

Map title:

'An eye plan of Sunderland and Bishop Wearmouth from the south by J. Rain'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from dyeline copy of transcription made in 1909 by Victor Bain and Norman Wiscell, Architects: location of either original unknown. Scale is indicative. The library's dating is 1790. Buildings, roperies, ships and everything else are pictorial.

Scale:

1:1250*

Map-maker:

J. Rain [dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

212 x 55

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial): Include tower mills, complete with sack-hoists.

Water transport infrastructure:

piers, quays, misc: Crane, Watch House.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively, (pictorial): Pictorial: include churchyards with graves, etc.

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries: [Battery, with guns].

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

cross

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

Sunderland Library [1909 transcrtipt]; BOL G.A.Durh.c.38, CUL Atlas 6.98.162 [1984: reproduced & edited by M.Clay, G.Milburn & S.Miller]; CUL Maps.aa.19.G.54 [1906/c.1986: photo]; BL YC.1990.b.5880, BOL M89.D 00889 [1989: parts, in Stuart Miller, The book of Sunderland, pb Barracuda Books].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, food/drink, glass, ship yards, rope walk, furniture/pottery, textiles, warehousing, uncertain, misc: Sail Cloth Factory, Block Makers Yard: occupation given for various retail premises.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Some ownership given: presumably not of smaller owners?].

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Borders:

decorative

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Numerous pictorial ships and boats. No people in streets, but some at work and in boats.

Ferries:

ferry

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

kennels: [Kennel for Hounds].

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

rubbish tips

Retail activity:

shown generally

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1855-7

1:528

1:2500

1:10,560

1895-6

1:2500

1:10,560