Lincolnshire-Gainsborough-1748 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20366

Map Date:

1748

Repository reference:

Lincolnshire Archives Bacon Plans 39

Historic county:

Lincolnshire

Town name:

Gainsborough

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SK813900

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SK 8388

Map title:

'A map of all the lands, leys pasture and meadow ground lying in the precincts of Gainsborough in the county of Lincoln belonginging to the Honble. Sir Nevile Hickman, Bart. 1748'.

Comments on map:

Shows whole township, but town is shown rather schematically: urban historians are likely to find this a disappointment.'

Scale:

1:6336

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

107 x 76

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water, decorative: Coloured dividers over scale.

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Lincolnshire Archives Bacon Plans 39 [1748]; BOL G.A.Lincs 8o 284 [1968: in I. Beckwith, The making of modern Gainsborough, Gainsboro UDC].

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560