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Kent-Sandwich-1785

CBTM:
21506
Map Date:
? 1785
Repository reference:
East Kent Archives Sa/P3
Historic county:
Kent
Town name:
Sandwich
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TR331581
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TR 3355
Map title:
'A plan of the town of Sandwich. 1787.'
Comments on map:
Suggested by index as the original for that f.p. 790 in William Boys, Collections for a history of Sandwich..., Canterbury: Simmons, Kirkby & Jones, 1792 [Exeter 21479].
Scale:
1:3168
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
38.0 x 41.0 [inked area: paper 56.0 x 41.5].
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, uncertain: Some grey buildings. Unclear why some land is tinted green: possibly because agricultural.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
clergy residences
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: 'Non-public' buildings which are mapped other than as frontages are infilled grey.
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial), (unspecified type)
Water transport infrastructure:
docks
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
town gates
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Public/administrative boundaries:
boundary markers: [One only].
Known copies of map:
East Kent Archives Sa/P3.
River and foreshore features:
sluices
Landowners and occupiers:
corporation/municipal: [Parochial land].
Waterbodies:
shown
Ordnance Survey's
1871
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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