Kent-Canterbury-1752 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21004

Map Date:

4.1752

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.16.33.2

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Canterbury

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TR151579

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TR 1562

Map title:

'A plan of the antient city of Canterbury...'

Comments on map:

Most text is via letters and numbers in reference. Scale is graduated in feet, and measured 1:2500; 1:2400 is assumed with paper shrinkage.

Scale:

1:2400

Map-maker:

Wm & Heny Doidge, Land Surveyors [sv], I. Hilton [eng].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

75.3 x 59.0

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Markedly so.

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

conduits

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively, misc: Including cloisters and chapter house at cathedral.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

town gates, town walls

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

misc, boundary markers: City boundary, and various areas outside the city's jurisdiction; [boundary crosses].

Known copies of map:

BLML K.Top. 16.33.2; BOL Gough Maps KEnt 29, 30; Centre for Kentish Studies 17/1167; CUL Maps.AA.67.75.1; RGS Eng & Wales S.11; Centre for Kentish Studies 17/751, Canterbury Library [Kent CC reissue, 1984]; Canterbury Library [no.10 in Simon Pratt, Maps of Canterbury c.1165 to c.1850, Canterbury Archaeological trust, June 1995, revised January 1997].

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

Including gate of St Augustines Monastry, other monastic remains, various towers, breaches in city wall made by Oliver Cromwell.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Rococco title, draped dedication, scrolls elsewhere.

Relief:

shown partially: [Dungeon Hill].

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

City Pound.

Arms and heraldry:

ecclesiastical, municipal: [Including Archbishop].

Cemeteries:

shown

Dedicee of map:

Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only: ['The Ancient Chequer Inn mention'd by Chaucer'].

Other land-uses & land-cover:

misc: Infill of some fields by upstanding vegetation, which the Andrews & Wren map of 1768 indicates to be hops.

Ordnance Survey's

1871-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560