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Kent-Ashford-1821

CBTM:
21491
Map Date:
1821
Repository reference:
Centre for Kentish Studies U.3383.P1
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, and copied by him in 1821.'
Comments on map:
Town not mapped in detail, and only included on grounds of scale. Fields numbered: no reference to hand, but there is one accompanying the 1818 version of the map, at Medway Archives [Exeter 21535]. 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]:
127 x 100
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, land-use, estate
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:
Centre for Kentish Studies U.3383.P1.
Waterbodies:
shown
Ordnance Survey's
1870-1
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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