Herefordshire-Hereford-1796 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23316

Map Date:

[1796]

Repository reference:

BL 290.c.16

Historic county:

Herefordshire

Town name:

Hereford

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO510400

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 5140

Map title:

'Plan of the City of Hereford.'

Comments on map:

F.p. 60 of John Price, An historical account of the City of Hereford, Hereford, London, 1796. Reference to streets and buildings in letterpress on pp 59-61. Scale is of 377 yards.

Scale:

1:8880

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

11.0 x 17.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BL 290.c.16, G.4004, BOL Gough Hereford 8, Hereford Library LC City Plans [1796]; BL X.809/12624 [1971: London: Woburn Press (reissue)].

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Antiquities:

Castle hill, city walls.

Symbolic elements:

Dividers, set-square and ruler: above title; does not look quite masonic.

Ordnance Survey's

1884-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560