Hampshire-Winchester-1750 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19866

Map Date:

7.1750

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 144.e.2

Historic county:

Hampshire

Town name:

Winchester

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU482292

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 4730

Map title:

'... City of Winchester ... Map of that City...'

Comments on map:

As well as the illustrations, the margins are occupied by historical notes. In a plain frame to left of cartouche: 'Gentlemen's Estates Survey'd, & maps thereof neatly drawn, by the Publisher WILLIAM GODSON, at Basing near Basingstoke in Hants.' Rural land-use effect: parishes named, but no boundaries.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

R. Benning [eng], William Godson, Basing near Basingstoke in Hants [pb: ? sv].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

122.0 x 96.0 [on 4 plates].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

royal palaces: [Kings House].

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial), misc: Cathedral and standing churches pictorial. Cathedral is shown in wooden 18th century sort of way: attempt to fuse planimetry and pictorialism. Sites of former churches.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, infirmaries

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

fairgrounds, markets: [St Mary Magdalene Fair: tents and figures, pictorial].

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML K.14.53.11 Tab, Maps 144.e.2, BOL C17 a.5, Gough Maps Hants 13, 14; BLML Maps 2620 (52) [OS photo, 1933], Hampshire RO 3M30/3-4 [? Photo], 15M84/P4/4/10.

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Abbey ruins, town ditch, plague market place in 1625, and other antiquities.

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Justice (no blindfold) with sword and scales to left of cartouche, ? Brittannia with 'sun' on shield to right; maces (two pairs) flank arms at top of cartouche.

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

To left and right are large pictures of thirteen notable buildings, including the King's House as proposed, and the layout of King Arthur's Round Table, with seating plan.

Symbolic elements:

Justice, sword, scales, Brittannia, maces: in cartouche.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Stone, City Arms.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Dedicee of map:

Worshipful Mayor, Corporation and MPs.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1868-70

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1894-5

1:2500

1:10,560