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Gloucestershire-Cirencester-1795

CBTM:
21561
Map Date:
1795
Repository reference:
Gloucestershire RO D2525
Historic county:
Gloucestershire
Town name:
Cirencester
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SP024016
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SP 0202
Map title:
'Plan of the borough town of Cirencester showing the property of T.B. Howell Esqr.'
Comments on map:
Very similar to the plan dedicated to Earl Bathurst [Exeter 21556], but with minor differences.
Scale:
1:1584
Map-maker:
Richd Hall & Son [sv, dr].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
74.0 x 62.0
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
water, owners: Mr Howell's property.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
shown
Turnpikes:
shown: [Inferred from pictorial gate across road].
Mills:
watermills
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Parish church shown with buttresses.
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
Gloucestershire RO D.2525.
Industry:
rope walk
Gardens:
shown
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners: [Mr Howell].
Waterbodies:
shown
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
Hole in the wall [significance?].
Map material:
parchment
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1874
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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