Kent-Canterbury-1806 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18485

Map Date:

1.12.1806

Repository reference:

RGS 7.E.7

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:

'Canterbury'.

Comments on map:

For The Beauties of England and Wales and the The British Atlas comprising a complete set of county maps, of England and Wales with a general map of navigable rivers and canals; and plans of cities and principal towns, London: Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, Longman, Faden, etc, 1810. Scale measured as 1 11/16 inches to 0.25 mile, 1:9386.

Scale:

1:9250

Map-maker:

J. Roper [dr], G. Cole [eng], E.W. Brayley [dir].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

23.3 x 18.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, misc.: Blank area annotated 'This space covering with buildings for the use of the Military.'

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals, workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

liberty: [Liberty of St Gregory].

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 11.b.3, BOL C17 c.5, BOL Motagu Illustr.41, Centre for Kentish Studies 18/28, RGS 7.E.7 [original]; BLML Maps 55.b.30, BOL C17 d.31 [Brian Stevens, 1970: 21 maps]; BOL G1. C16.6 [1992: in Ashley Baynton-Williams, Town and city maps of the British Isles 1800-1855, London: Studio Editions, 1992].

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Antiquities:

Monastic sites.

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom right: vignette of Canterbury, including cathedral and St Augustine's gate.

Arms and heraldry:

ecclesiastical, municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1871-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560