Flintshire-Rhuddlan-1756 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23009

Map Date:

1756

Repository reference:

Flint RO NT/M/94(11)

Historic county:

Flintshire

Town name:

Rhuddlan

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ023781

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 0189

Map title:

[On banner at top:] 'A map of Rhyddlan estate etc.'; [in cartouche:] 'This map contains Rhyddlan Estate and Borough in the County of Flint belonging to Madm. Elinor Conway, and the heirs and devisees of the Ho. James Stapleton Esq. Decd. taken in the year 1756 by their most obedt. servant Jno. Roberts.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy: original at National Library of Wales. Fields numbered: presumably in survey book, not to hand. 'Page.....2', top right. Much more informative than Exeter 23008.

Scale:

1:2772

Map-maker:

Jno. Roberts [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

89 x 75

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, owners: Possibly others.

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Known copies of map:

LGC [original]; Flint RO NT/M/94(11) [photo].

Antiquities:

Castle.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Banner at top: mirror-surround below.

Relief:

'molehills': Archaic-looking for 1756.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial sailing vessel in river.

Map material:

parchment

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1871

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560