Leicestershire-Leicester-1792
CBTM:
23269
Map Date:
1792
Repository reference:
BL G.3498
Historic county:
Leicestershire
Town name:
Leicester
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SK584044
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SK 5904
Map title:
'Plan of Leicester 1792.'
Comments on map:
F.p. [1] in John Throsby, The history and antiquities of the ancient town of Leicester, Leicester: author, 1791 [sic]. F.p. 22 is 'Leicester taken about 1600', a transcript of Speed.
Scale:
1:10,800*
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
14.3 x 18.7 [plate 16.3 x 20.7].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Ribbons.
Mills:
watermills
Canals:
other: 'Line of the intended navigation'.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively, (pictorial)
Welfare and charitable:
infirmaries
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges
Known copies of map:
BL 188.a.3, G.3498, BOL Gough Leicester 5 [1792: in The history and antiquities of...Leicester, f.p.[1]].
Leisure and entertainment:
public halls
Parkland:
public parks: ['New Walk'].
Antiquities:
Monastic sites, Castle, 'Rd IIId buried'.
Ordnance Survey's
1884-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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