Kent-Ashford-1818
CBTM:
21535
Map Date:
1818
Repository reference:
Medway Archives DRC.EP.1A+B
Historic county:
Kent
Town name:
Ashford
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TR010427
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TR 0445
Map title:
'A plan of the parish of Ashford... surveyed for the Right Honourable Sackville Earl of Thanet. 1818. Surveyed by James Gouge Sittingbourne.'
Comments on map:
Town not mapped in detail, and only included on grounds of scale. Fields numbered: reference is 'References to the Plan of the Parish of Ashford... surveyed for the Right Honourable Sackville Earl of Thanet. 1818. By James Gouge Sittingbourne.' Added in red: 'The several entries written in Red Colour denote the variations that took place between the Year 1818 and Michaelmas 1821. J. Gouge, December, 1821.' Has owners, occupiers, and Inbound and Outbound acreages, but lacks this for the built-up area. Scale expressed in rods (1 inch to 24 rods).
Scale:
1:4752
Map-maker:
James Gouge, Sittingbourne [sv, dr].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
132 x 121
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, estate, land-use
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Generalised frontages only.
Turnpikes:
shown
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Known copies of map:
Medway Archives DRC.EP.1A+B.
Waterbodies:
shown
Ordnance Survey's
1870-1
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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