Lincolnshire-Spalding-1732 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19509

Map Date:

1732

Repository reference:

Lincolnshire Archives Smith 9/1/54

Historic county:

Lincolnshire

Town name:

Spalding

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TF248227

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TF 2624

Map title:

'A plan of the town of Spalding in South Holland Lincolnshire as surveyed delineated and humbly presented to the Gentlemen's Society in Spalding by their most humble servant John Grundy of Congeston Leicestershire Land Surveyor and teacher of the Mathematicks SGSS'.

Comments on map:

Historical note at the bottom of the map. 'Lithographed in imitation of the Original' by Madeley [bottom right], 'Published at the request of the Gentlemen of the Spalding Literary Society by J.S. Langwith, Grantham, March, 1839' [bottom left].

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

John Grundy, Congeston, Leicestershire [sv], G.E. Madeley, 3 Wellington St, Strand [lith, pr].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

111.0 x 76.0 [overall: map 88.0 x 54.0].

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

Reference system, ownership: Freeholds.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial): Large vignette, in situ.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

cross, (pictorial)

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Known copies of map:

Lincolnshire Archives Smith 9/1/54 [1830: litho]; BLML 3425(8) [photo 1944]; BOL G.A.Lincs c.71 [reduced facsimile in Aspects of Spalding 1790-1930, Chameleon Press, 1986].

Industry:

textiles

River and foreshore features:

misc: Navigability of river noted.

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

Various antiquities named in Latin; [Priors] Oven.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Less-built-up part].

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Twelve pictures of notable buildings, &c, down the sides.

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Bridges apparently shown according to whether masonry (brick effect) or wood (plank effect).

Reference system:

squaring: Note below title explains how to measure distances using the squaring: this is in yards, notionally at 55 yards [= 10 perches, or 2.5 chains] spacing, but both horizontally and vertically it goes 55, 110, 160, 215, 270, 325..., 875, 930, so that 435 yds in ii furlongs, 875 in iv.

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds, tithe barns: [Tithe Barn, Pinfold].

Dedicee of map:

Spalding Gentlemens Society.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1886-7

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560