Hampshire-Basingstoke-1762 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21099

Map Date:

1762

Repository reference:

Hampshire RO 23M72/P1/1

Historic county:

Hampshire

Town name:

Basingstoke

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU636519

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 6452

Map title:

'An accurate survey of the town and manor of Basingstoke part of the estates belonging to his Grace the Duke of Bolton taken anno 1762.'

Comments on map:

Reference at Hampshire RO 23M72/P1/2: one of a set of eight maps. A good town map, although buildings are rather rectangular, and only a minority have reference letters. Historical note appended to the Chapel of the Holy Ghost.

Scale:

1:1584

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

94.5 x 70.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, decorative: Coloured cartouche and direction-pointer.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Important houses and buildings pictorial.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial): Quite large, with clerestory: not refined.

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets, (pictorial)

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

Hampshire RO 23M72/P1/1 [reference at 23M72/P1/2].

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary for location purposes

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Walls, embankments, etc:

'Hedges' with trees.

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete: Incomplete outside the Bolton estate.

Ordnance Survey's

1871

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1894

1:2500

1:10,560