Essex-Colchester-1767
CBTM:
20520
Map Date:
1767
Repository reference:
Colchester Library, Local Studies
Historic county:
Essex
Town name:
Colchester
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TL995252
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TL 9925
Map title:
'... actual survey of the ancient town and borough of Colchester... Surveyed & delin'd MDCCLXVII.'
Comments on map:
Antiquarian 'Remarks', bottom right.
Scale:
1:3960
Map-maker:
Thos Sparrow, Land Surveyor in Hammersmith, Middlesex [sv, dr].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
70.7 x 51.0 [map: plate 72.8 x 72.8].
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
other: Use of dotting for back yards, etc.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Note that 'The Dotting in General includes all the Back-Offices, Courts, Yards, Gardens both Private and Common, &c, &c.'
Mills:
windmills, watermills, (pictorial)
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town walls
Markets and exchanges:
fairgrounds
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 2390(3), K.Top.13.13, BOL (E)C17:70 Colchester (2), Gough Maps Essex 10, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] Lar. vol. IV (Topographical), BOL C17 a.4, Colchester Library Local Studies [original & photocopies], CUL Maps.AA.61.76.1, RGS Eng & Wales S.16.
Industry:
textiles: [Both Tann Yard and pictorial tenters].
Gardens:
shown
Antiquities:
Remains of St Botolphs shown with piers.
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners: [Owner of castle].
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
pictorial 'realistic': Title is on sky to right of watermill and gothic tower, with below a man with an implement and four barrels, one of which is on its side and seems to have spilled its contents, whilst a man with a horse walks away: this is just above 'Middle Mill' on the map.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top right: Castle; bottom left: St Botolphs Priory Church from south-west; bottom centre: St John's Abbey Church from south; bottom right, St Johns Abbey gate, north front.
Relief:
prominent hills: Including A Mount (hachured).
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Symbolic elements:
Virtue, St Helena: with town arms.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Arms and heraldry:
municipal: [Town arms have lion underneath, Virtue to left, and to right St Helena, mother of the first Christian Emperor, who reputedly brought back Christ's cross from the Holy Land: note below explains this adding, 'on which account the author thought proper to add Virtue and Religion as supporters to the arms.'].
Miscellaneous street furniture:
Obelisk 51 Miles from London.
Walls, embankments, etc:
Fences [pictorial].
Dedicee of map:
Society of Antiquaries in London.
Ordnance Survey's
1875
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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