Leicestershire-Hinckley-1782 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18236

Map Date:

1782

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] Library

Historic county:

Leicestershire

Town name:

Hinckley

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP426948

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 4393

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Hinckley'.

Comments on map:

In Bibliotheca topographica Brittannica, No. VII, containing The history and antiquities of Hinckley..., London: J. Nichols, 1782, f.p.vi.

Scale:

1:11,520

Map-maker:

J. Robinson [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

33.6 x 22.2

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial): Large pictorial postmills.

Sanitary and utility information:

fire stations: [Repository for the Fire Engines].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively, (pictorial): [Parish church is pictorial].

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

BOL Gough Leics 20, Leicestershire RO Ma/142/3 [1810: in J. Nichols, History of Leics, Vol IV, pt 1, fp.669]; BOL A.A.Leic.4o 134 [1983: in H.A. Beavin, The Book of Hinckley, Barracuda Books]; BOL G.A.Leic.c.32=G.24/C17.19, CUL Atlas.5.98.135 [1782/1984: in J.D.Welding (ed), Leicestershire in 1777, (Leicester, Leicestershire Libraries, 1984)].

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa: [Christopher's Spa].

Miscellaneous:

Various topographical names of uncertain significance.

Antiquities:

Priory.

Landowners and occupiers:

notable residents

Waterbodies:

shown

Reference system:

graticule: Apparently based on observations at Mr John Robinson's house (no 33 on map).

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Building ftruck by lightning (fee p.85), Lovers Walk.

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds: [Pinfold].

Garden and park buildings:

summer houses

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1886

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560