Hampshire-Winchester-1791 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18553

Map Date:

1791

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/719

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:

'Plan of the city of Winchester by Thos. Milne Surveyor 1791.'

Comments on map:

Originally recorded from Margary-Laxton (1976). Inset on Milne-Faden 1:63,360 map of Hampshire, surveyed 1788-90. Closely copied by Roper & Cole, etc: see Exeter 18486. Scale measured as 2.1 inches to 2 furlongs.

Scale:

1:7440

Map-maker:

Thos Milne [sv], W. Faden ['executed', pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

22.7 x 25.8

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences, royal palaces: The Kings House.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative: Including several court houses.

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls: Battlement-effect for town wall.

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, infirmaries: [Several 'hospitals'].

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps* 2550(9), K.Top.14.6.11 Tab.End, BOL C17 a.5, Gough Maps Hants 7, Hampshire RO M.230, CUL Maps.b.17.G.3, Maps.R.a.21, TNA [PRO] MR 1/719, RGS Eng & Wales D.28 [1791]; [1976: Harry Margary].

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Antiquities:

Market Place during the Plague 1625.

Relief:

slopes shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Milestones [pictorial].

Ordnance Survey's

1868-70

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1894-5

1:2500

1:10,560