Glamorganshire-Llandaff-1776 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23164

Map Date:

1776

Repository reference:

Glamorgan RO D/D Xgc 123

Historic county:

Glamorganshire

Town name:

Llandaff

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

ST155780

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 1875

Map title:

'A plan of the ancient city of Llandaff.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy of 'Page 2nd' in 'A book of maps of the estates of Thomas Edwards Esqr in the several... counties of Glamorgan, Monmouth, and Hereford survey'd & mapped by E. Thomas Anno 1776.' Scale is graduated in yards.

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

E. Thomas [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

50.0 x 34.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

ownership: 'All that's Coloured Green is the property of Mr. Edwards'.

Colouring:

Buildings, land-use: Possibly others.

Buildings:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: Cathedral: pictorial.

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

LGC Vol 28 [ex MS 6631 E] [original: not traced on computer, 20:9:05]; Glamorgan RO D/D Xgc 123 [photos].

Gardens:

shown: [Mostly by annotation].

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Bishop's Palace in ruins.

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary for location purposes

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Rococco; naked men in upper parts.

Symbolic elements:

Naked men: upper parts in cartouche.

Garden and park buildings:

summer houses, misc: Alcove.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1878

1:2500

1:10,560

1898-9

1:2500

1:10,560