Essex-Colchester-1768 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20521

Map Date:

[1768]

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:

'The Ichnography of Colchester.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy. For Philip Morant, Ichnography of Colchester, Book 1, fp 4, London: Osborne, 1768. No obvious relationship to Sparrow [Exeter 20520]: buildings are much more refined, though the map is not very refined overall.

Scale:

1:3168*

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

53.7 x 32.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Notable buildings, including some undescribed houses, pictorial.

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

BL 1783.cc.1, 191.f.9, 1565/116, G.6048-9, Colchester Library Local Studies [Colchester Library Local Studies: originals & photocopies], CUL Lib.2.74.3 [1748]; BL 2064.e, BLML K.Top.13.12, BOL Gough Essex 31, CUL Ll.10.27 [1768]; BOL G.A.Essex c.24 [1748/1970: S.R.Publishers]; BOL G.A.Essex c.35/1 [1768/1978: EP Publishing].

Industry:

textiles: [Inferred from pictorial tenters].

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

Site of abbey.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom left: two Roman coins.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial shipping on river.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Dedicee of map:

Hon Philip Yorke and his wife, the MArchioness of Grey.

Ordnance Survey's

1875

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560