Essex-Maldon-1768 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23503

Map Date:

1768

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MF 1/54

Historic county:

Essex

Town name:

Maldon

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL850070

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 8312

Map title:

'Plan de la Baye de Maldon ....'

Comments on map:

Planche 17, accompanying report of 17 October 1768. The set also includes the Tower of London and Windsor Castle, and a general monolingual map of England and Wales published by John Rocque, April 1760, c.1:1,350,000. Style is broadly similar to Board of Ordnance, but hills are brown-sepia shading.

Scale:

1:15,000*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

25.3 x 28.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

watermills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MF 1/54.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Ordnance Survey's

1873

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560