Leicestershire-Melton Mowbray-1787 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21091

Map Date:

1787

Repository reference:

Leicestershire RO Ma/219/2 [location: GC 23]

Historic county:

Leicestershire

Town name:

Melton Mowbray

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SK752191

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SK 7822

Map title:

'The survey of an estate in the lordship of Melton Mowbray in the county of Leicester belonging to Philip Burton Esqr.: with part of the adjoining lands, brooks, roads &c: and also a plan of the town of Melton Mowbray.'

Comments on map:

Surveyed by Staveley in 1787. Schedule of Mr Burton's property bottom left: added in a different hand. Ambiguously poised between estate map and general-use plan.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

Chr: Staveley junr. [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

57.3 x 85.7

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water: Rather grey

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Solid black.

Mills:

windmills, watermills, (pictorial): Neat.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial): Neat minature drawing.

Markets and exchanges:

cross, markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Leicestershire RO Ma/219/2 [location: GC 23] [original]; Leicestershire RO PP 473 [photo].

Industry:

food/drink

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary for location purposes

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Really decoration above title.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

generalised/schematic

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560