Essex-Aveley-1593 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20748

Map Date:

1593

Repository reference:

Essex RO D/DTH 18

Historic county:

Essex

Town name:

Aveley

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ567802

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 5780

Map title:

'A map of the demesne lands of the mannor of Alvethley ... belonging to St Thomas's Hospital...(being a true copy of Christopher Saxton's survey in 1593) by J. Freeman 1782.'

Comments on map:

Plausible-looking transcript.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

Christopher Saxton [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

117 x 71

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

London Metropolitan Archives HI/ST/E115/34 [original?]; Essex RO D/DTh 18 [1782 copy].

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary for location purposes

Ordnance Survey's

1864-5

1:2500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560