Kent-Cranbrook-1811 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21492

Map Date:

1811

Repository reference:

Centre for Kentish Studies U.78.P.30

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Cranbrook

Map type:

Parish

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ777360

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 7537

Map title:

[Main title:] 'A map of Cranbrook parish in the county of Kent'. [Bottom right: 'Surveyed and delineated in 1810 and 1811 by Thos Brown of Maidstone'.

Comments on map:

Purpose unclear, but possibly parochial. Farms or estates numbered: they are mapped in greater detail at a variety of (unstated by implicit from acreages) in a volume, U.78.P.31, which gives owners, occupiers and acreages, but which includes nothing for the town proper (if one excepts a stylised representation of the church, on opening for nos 82-87).

Scale:

1:9504

Map-maker:

Thos Brown, Maidstone [sv, dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

121 x 90

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, estate, land-use, decorative

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Centre for Kentish Studies U.78.P30 [single map], U.78.P31 [book of estate-maps: not town].

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Title is on slab, propped against live tree, with gothic ruins in background.

Borders:

decorative: 1-inch grey dicing.

Estate boundary ownership:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1869

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560