Glamorganshire-Neath-1720 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22755

Map Date:

? 1720

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.47.40

Historic county:

Glamorganshire

Town name:

Neath

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SS751978

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SS 7393

Map title:

'A plan of the town & port of Neath... being part of ye estate of Sr. Humphrey Mackworth...'

Comments on map:

Reference to letters is to features outside the town on the estate. Urban mapping rather rudimentary, almost suggesting Speed. Dating is on the basis of West Glamorgan RO D/D Z 87/2, which is a reproduction titled 'A plan of Neath in 1720', with a note below that it accompanies a book or pamphlet, 'A few of the advantages arising to the co-partners and company of mineral manufacturers of Neath by making and manufacturing copper, brass, lead and iron in their work-houses', published 'in Black Fryers' in 1720.

Scale:

1:24,000*

Map-maker:

M. O Conner [author], Clark [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

26.0 x 15.8 [map: plate 26.8 x 16.5].

Number of parts:

1

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills

Water transport infrastructure:

quays: Indicated by moored vessels; sailing ships in sea.

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Named well.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

BLML K.Top.47.40 [original]; West Glamorgan RO D/D Z 87/2 [facsimile, late C19-early C20].

Industry:

metallurgical processing, uncertain: 'work Houses' [sic].

Railways:

industrial tramways/waggonways

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

'Abby'.

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

prominent hills

Extractive activity:

coal: 'Ginn Houses for raiusing Coals', 'An Air Shaft for the Coalery'.

Ordnance Survey's

1876

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560