Herefordshire-Hereford-1757 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21028

Map Date:

21.3.1757

Repository reference:

Hereford City Library, reference section

Historic county:

Herefordshire

Town name:

Hereford

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO510040

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 5140

Map title:

'... City of Hereford...'

Comments on map:

Recorded from version produced as supplement to Official City Guide, reduced to about 67 % of original size. On left is table of streets with numbers of houses and inhabitants: total 1279 houses, 5592 inhabitants. 'Ross 1757' in cartouche.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

J. Taylor [author], R. Benning [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

88 x 69

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Quite detailed.

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Water transport infrastructure:

wharfs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

town gates, town walls

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

orchards: Including Cherry Orchard.

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish: [Probably thus].

Known copies of map:

BLML K.Top. 15.94, BOL C17 a.5, Gough Maps Herefordshire 5, CUL Maps.AA.64.75.1, Hereford Library Pilley Bequest 12; BL X.805/1011, BOL G.A.Heref.c.9 [1975: Tonkin, q.v.]; RGS Eng & Wales S.518 [facsim, pb Hereford City Cl, 1977]; Hereford RO AP25/1 O/U 644; Hereford RO X.24 [photocopy]; Hereford RO K38/D/180 [copy].

Industry:

textiles

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

Castle Green, monastic sites.

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Title and vignettes in roccoco framing; title has in the background a man writing at the bottom of a large sheet of paper (surveyor signing off the map?), gothic ruin, and two sailing barges on river, one laden, one being loaded with sacks: presumably emblematic of prosperity.

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Round map: nine views of notable buildings, etc.

Symbolic elements:

Man writing, gothic ruin, two sailing barges: in title.

Miscellaneous transport-related:

[Weighing] Machine.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Arms and heraldry:

ecclesiastical

Dedicee of map:

Rt Hon the Earl of Oxford, High Steward of City, Rt Hon & Rt Rev Sir James Beauclerk, Bishop of Hereford, Rt Hon Lord Viscount Bateman, Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire, Rt Rev Bishop of Bangor, Hon Col Fitzroy and John Symons Esq, MPs for Hereford, and Robert Price and Theor. Lane, Esq., 'in grateful remembrance of the many particular favours they have honoured me with', and also mayor, aldermen and citizens of Hereford.

Tenement boundaries group:

less built-up parts only

Ordnance Survey's

1884-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560