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Hampshire-Basingstoke-1762

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
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