Hertfordshire-Hitchin-1822 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19355

Map Date:

1.7.1822

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] Library

Historic county:

Hertfordshire

Town name:

Hitchin

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL184294

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 2227

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Hitchin Herts 1820'.

Comments on map:

In Robert Clutterbuck, The history and antiquities of the county of Hertford, London: Nichols, III (1827), f.p. 12.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

E. Turrell [eng], Nichols & Son, London [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

34.6 x 22.2

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills, watermills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BL HLL 942.58, 200.i.3-5, G.7054-56, CUL Maps.bb.65.82.1, Hertford RO MM 34 A-F [6 copies] [3/PC1/5], TNA [PRO] Library.

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Priory.

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Reference on 'scroll'.

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1878-9

1:528

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560