Durham-Tow Law-1774 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

16267

Map Date:

1774

Repository reference:

Durham RO Q/D/E 33

Historic county:

Durham

Town name:

Tow Law

Map type:

Enclosure

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

NZ120390

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NZ 1536

Comments on map:

Thornley enclosure map.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

Richd Richardson [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

107 x 62

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

owners

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Known copies of map:

Durham RO Q/D/E 33.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Asymetrical rococco mirror surround, with wheel to left, and trees and a church with centre tower and spire to right, in background.

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Symbolic elements:

Wheel, church, trees: in cartouche.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Map material:

parchment

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1858

1:2500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560