Hampshire-Whitchurch-1730 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19864

Map Date:

1730

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 188.J.2 (2)

Historic county:

Hampshire

Town name:

Whitchurch

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU462481

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 4949

Map title:

[Smaller scale map:] 'Survey of the borough of Whitchurch in the county of Southampton. Taken in the year 1730 by Thomas Lawrence.' [Larger scale map:] 'Survey of the town of Whitchurch upon a larger scale in the year 1730.'

Comments on map:

Borough at 1:4752, town at 1:2376. Tables at bottom of map of owners, leaseholders, tenements split from ancient burgages since 1696, and freeholders of ancient burgages. Good as a plan, but short on non-human text. The relationship of this map to that of the borough, also of 1730, in BLML K.Top.14.52.11.Tab [Exeter 21166] is not clear.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

Thomas Lawrence [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

45.0 x 64.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, decorative, other: Cartouche; buildings evidently coloured by tenure; possibly other things.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 188.j.2(2) [photo].

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Borough has face at top, and cornucopias sprouting upwards on each side; town has flowers, and face at bottom: both look rather colourful.

Ordnance Survey's

1871-2

1:2500

1:10,560

1894

1:2500

1:10,560