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Leicestershire-Market Harborough-1804

CBTM:
18238
Map Date:
? 1804
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] Library
Historic county:
Leicestershire
Town name:
Market Harborough
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SP733872
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SP 7388
Map title:
'A Plan of the Town of Market Harborough in the County of Leicester, taken A.D.1776, by Samuel Turner, who having left the same in a very unfinished state the information has been supplied by Rowland Rouse.'
Comments on map:
In John Nichols, The history and antiquities of the county of Leicester, III, pt II, London: Nichols, 1804, f.p.1126. Scale treated as 1 inch to 96 yards, i.e. 1:3456.
Scale:
1:3456
Map-maker:
Samuel Turner and Rowland Rouse [sv].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
39.0 x 22.8
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Defence and military:
misc.: Guard House.
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
BOL Gough Leicester 24 [1776/1808: in The history of Market Harborough]; Leicestershire RO Ma/215/3, TNA [PRO] Library [in Nicholls III,ii (1823), f.p. 1126]; BOL G.A.Leic.c32=G24/C17.19, CUL Atlas.5.98.135 [1984: J.D. Welding (ed), Leicestershire in 1777, (Leicester, Leicestershire Libraries, 1984)]; CUL 9474.b.1316 [1984: in J.C. Davies, The book of Market Harborough, 1984].
River and foreshore features:
misc: Holy Well.
Gardens:
shown
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top right: west front of Free Grammar School.
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Named causeway.
Ordnance Survey's
1884
1:2500
1:10,560
1899
1:2500
1:10,560
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