Hertfordshire-St Albans-1720
CBTM:
22677
Map Date:
1720
Repository reference:
BOL Gough Maps 11, fol. 20B
Historic county:
Hertfordshire
Town name:
St Albans
Map type:
Historical
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TL144071
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TL 1506
Map title:
'Verolanium municipium Britannico...'
Comments on map:
Scale of paces: 60-inchers assumed.
Scale:
1:4800
Map-maker:
W. Stukeley [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
47.5 x 30.0
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
fragmentary: Fishpool Street.
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Known copies of map:
BOL Gough Maps 11 Fol 22B, MS Gough Gen. Top. 15, p.37.
Gardens:
shown: [Implied from annotation 'Horti'].
Antiquities:
Extensive: with a good deal of dating.
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Title on slab, with bases of two columns on top, and a fallen capital to right.
Symbolic elements:
Ruinousness: in cartouche.
Crosses:
cross, named: [Crux Regina Elenora].
Stated measuerments:
other: Various lengths in Verolamium, indicating that this was surveyed rather more carefully than was the towb.
Tenement boundaries group:
generalised/schematic
Ordnance Survey's
1877-8
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1897
1:2500
1:10,560
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