Essex-Harwich-1775
CBTM:
21473
Map Date:
? 1775
Repository reference:
Essex RO [Colchester] D/DU 557/2
Historic county:
Essex
Town name:
Harwich
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TM260325
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TM 2833
Comments on map:
A puzzling map: detailed land-use suggests estate-map rather than Board of Ordnance, as does omitting of the marshes and details in the dockyard areas, yet the treatment of the town is entirely what one would expect from the Ordnance, and the execution is extremely good. Dating by Essex RO.
Scale:
1:1584*
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
88 x 58 [maximum inked area].
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Generalised buildings are carmine, those mapped in detail are grey.
Water transport infrastructure:
groynes
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only: Indicated by buttresses and deeper carmine.
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Known copies of map:
Colchester D/DU 557/2.
Industry:
timber: [Timber store indicated by pictorial treetrunks].
River and foreshore features:
misc: Shingle.
Gardens:
shown: [Fragmentary].
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Waterbodies:
shown
Relief:
slopes shown
Tenement boundaries group:
incomplete: Only where buildings are mapped in detail.
Ordnance Survey's
1861
1:2500
1874
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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