Essex-Colchester-1805 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18401

Map Date:

1.10.1805

Repository reference:

RGS 7.E.7

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:

'Colchester.'

Comments on map:

For The Beauties of England & Wales and The British Atlas comprising a complete set of county maps, of England and Wales with a general map of navigable rivers and canals; and plans of cities and principal towns, London: Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, Longman, Faden, etc, 1810.

Scale:

1:10,560

Map-maker:

G. Cole [dr], J. Roper [eng], J. Britton [dir].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

23.6 x 18.6

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 11.b.3, BOL C17 c.5, BOL Montagu Illustr. 41, CUL Maps.18.G.72, RGS 7.E.7 [1805-10]; BOL C17 d.31 [1970: Brian Stevens]; BOL G1/ C16.6 [1992: in Ashley Baynton-Williams, Town and city maps of the British Isles 1800-1855, London: Studio Editions, 1992].

Industry:

salt, metallurgical processing, textiles

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

[Shown: details not noted.]

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Top right: gate of St Johns Abbey.

Relief:

slopes shown

Monuments:

obelisks

Ordnance Survey's

1875

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560