Isle of Wight-Newtown-1768 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23022

Map Date:

1768

Repository reference:

Isle of Wight Record Office JER/WA/33/53

Historic county:

Isle of Wight

Town name:

Newtown

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SZ422903

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SZ 3988

Map title:

'A map of the Borough of Newtown, alias Frankville, in the Isle of Wight in Hampshire... Surveyed in January and February 1768 by James Mallett, Land Surveyor.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from reduced copy in H.V. Basford, The Vectis Report: a survey of Isle of Wight archaeology, [? Newport]: Isle of Wight County Council, 1980. Scale and dimensions according to this version. [Original apparently fragile.]

Scale:

1:6336

Map-maker:

James Mallett, Land Surveyor [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

25.0 x 16.5

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: Ruins.

Known copies of map:

Isle of Wight RO JER/WA/33/53.

Industry:

salt

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [Mostly field rather than owner-names].

Symbolic elements:

Dividers, globe, putti: above scale.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1862

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560