Huntingdonshire-Yaxley-1821 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20650

Map Date:

1821

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 2965 (121)

Historic county:

Huntingdonshire

Town name:

Yaxley

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL180920

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 1890

Map title:

'A plan of the Lordship of Yaxley, Huntingdonshire, from a recent survey of the town and old inclosures, and from ancient maps of the allotments and fen lands.'

Comments on map:

Photograph by Cambridge University Library, April 1938, of original in private hands: possibly reduced to 33 % of original (scale is about 1 inch to 18 chains). Accompanying reference, dated 1827. 'Surveyed and arranged' by Lovell.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

T. Lovell, Huntingdon [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

100 x 90

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 2965(121), CUL Maps.bb.66.93.26, .27, Huntingdon RO PM 5/12 [Cambridge University photo, April 1938]; Huntingdon Library Estate & Enclosure Map 157 [copy].

Waterbodies:

shown

Arms and heraldry:

principal landowner.: [Lord Carysfoot, an owner: top right].

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland: [Reed beds].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1886-7

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560