Essex-Walthamstow-1699 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21020

Map Date:

7.1699

Repository reference:

Essex RO T/M 252/1

Historic county:

Essex

Town name:

Walthamstow

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ378892

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3809

Map title:

'The survey of the mannor of High Hall in the parish of Walthamstow in the county of Essex belonging to the Honourable William Maynard Baronet exactly done in July 1699 by A. Forbes'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from photograph of damaged original, reduced to 85 %. Modern alpha-numeric border added.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

A. Forbes [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

184 x 123

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, decorative

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Known copies of map:

Waltham Forest Archives [original]; Essex RO T/M 252/1 [photo].

Landowners and occupiers:

holdings/occupiers: [Presumed thus].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom centre, within drape: a five-bay two-story building: a school or hospital?

Arms and heraldry:

principal landowner.: [Presumed thus].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1863

1:2500

1:10,560

1894

1:2500

1:10,560