Essex-Saffron Walden-1758 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21012

Map Date:

1758

Repository reference:

Essex RO T/M 90/1

Historic county:

Essex

Town name:

Saffron Walden

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL540385

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 5437

Map title:

'A plan of the town of Saffron Walden in the county of Essex surveyed by Edwd John Eyre Surveyor 1758.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from 90 % photocopy. Scale in perches or poles.

Scale:

1:792

Map-maker:

Edwd John Eyre Surveyor [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

135 x 84

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings: Possibly others.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Markets and exchanges:

markets: Various parts, e.g. butter, pigs, indicated.

Known copies of map:

Essex RO T/M 90/1 [photo].

Antiquities:

Castle ruins.

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: With flowers, also flags and pikes: a reference to the Seven Years War?

Borders:

decorative

Symbolic elements:

Flags, pikes: in cartouche. Surveying boy and instruments around scale-bar.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Surveying: naked boy with dividers measuring from scale-bar, with theodolite, chain and pole behind.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1875-6 - O

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560