Lancashire-Clitheroe-1781 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20059

Map Date:

1781

Repository reference:

Lancashire RO DDHCL/MAPS/18

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Clitheroe

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SD744421

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SD 7544

Map title:

'A plan of the borough of Clithero in the county of Lancaster Drawn by M. Oddie 1781'.

Comments on map:

Scale given in both stature chains and in 7-yard perches. Related survey of 1797 is at Lancashire RO DDX 1464/1.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

M. Oddie [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

102 x 88

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

other: 'The Parts coloured green are Freehold Lands having Right of Common. Those coloured Red are Houfes and Lands which Mr Lifter contends to have a Right to vote and no other part of which have alfo Right of Common. Parts uncoloured are the Commons, also Lands having no Common Right part of which are Freehold part Copyhold.' The green is particularly pale and faded, but not yet illegible.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Not markedly so.

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Lancashire RO DDHCL/MAPS/18 (survey of 1797 at DDX 1464/1).

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Relief:

shown partially

Commons:

shown

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Dividers straddle ruler-like scale bar.

Map material:

parchment

Ordnance Survey's

1844-6

1:1056

1:10,560

1884

1:1056

1:10,560