Kent-Canterbury-1768 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21005

Map Date:

1768

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.16.34

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 city of Canterbury, survey'd by Jno. Andrews & Mat. Wren. 1768.'

Comments on map:

Clean-cut, Rocque-style job, with far less 'text' than the Doidge map [Exeter 21004]. Bottom right is an 'Advertisement' for a 25-sheet 1:31,680 map of Kent, with single-sheet index. Scale is graduated in feet.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

Jno. Andrews & Mat. Wren [sv], A. Dury, Duke Court, St Martins Lane, & W. Herbert, 27 Goulston Square, White Chapel [pr, sell].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

60.0 x 48.8 [overall: plate 62.2 x 50.0].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Slightly more sensitive than the Doidges.

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Pump.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively, misc: Cloisters.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

gallows, (pictorial): [On Gallows Green].

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML K.Top. 16.34, K.1.TAB.21; BOL Gough Maps Kent 33, Gough Maps Kent 34, C17 a.7; Centre for Kentish Studies 17/1943; East Kent Archives U20/P1/27; CUL Atlas.2.76.9,27, Maps.AA.67.76.1; RGS Eng & Wales S.17 [2nd copy, Robt Sayer]; RGS 1.C.100 [1779: Sayer]; Cant CL [repro of Sayer issue]; Canterbury Library [no.11 in Simon Pratt, Maps of Canterbury c.1165 to c.1850, Canterbury Archaeological trust, June 1995, revised January 1997].

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

Various monastic remains, towers, breaches in city wall made by Oliver Cromwell.

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Below title: apparently a hop-picking scene.

Relief:

prominent hills

Other land-uses & land-cover:

misc: Extensive Hop Grounds [pictorial].

Ordnance Survey's

1871-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560