Flintshire-Holywell-1800 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23005

Map Date:

1800

Repository reference:

Flint RO D/GR/1690

Historic county:

Flintshire

Town name:

Holywell

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SJ195776

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 1774

Map title:

'A map of the manor of Holywell, Fulbrook and Greenfield. In the parishes of Holywell and Whitford, in the County of Flint, belonging to Lord Grey de Wilton. Surveyed in 1800 by R. Piercy'.

Comments on map:

Of rather restricted interest for building (frontages only), but more rewarding for industry. Those tenements which are mapped are numbered: reference not to hand.

Scale:

1:7920

Map-maker:

R. Piercy [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

126 x 160

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water, decorative, uncertain: Possibly ownership; grey water.

Road names:

partly

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Frontages only.

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Known copies of map:

Flint RO D/GR/1690.

Industry:

chemicals, food/drink, metallurgical processing, textiles

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners: ['Copper and Brass Company'].

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Title on rock-face with surrounding vegetation: direction pointer also on rock.

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

relict industry: Old Mill.

Ordnance Survey's

1869

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560