Lincolnshire-Spilsby-1821 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19510

Map Date:

1821

Repository reference:

Lincolnshire Archives 5 Anc. 5/A/6/1

Historic county:

Lincolnshire

Town name:

Spilsby

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TF402661

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TF 3765

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Spilsby and adjacent lands, the property of the Rt. Hoble. Lord Gwydir. Lincolnshire. Also the alterations up to Christmas 1825. Surveyed & mapped by Frederick Wood.'

Scale:

1:1344

Map-maker:

Frederick Wood, 190 Regent St London [sv, dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

135 x 114

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours, land-use: One to land-use, top left, plain, the other to colour, bottom left, on a scroll, which also has the date 1821; this is an 1821 map which was discreetly modified in 1825.

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, owners, decorative: Arable & grass; Gwydir buildings carmine, others grey; non-Gwydir lands nominally 'purple;' grey shading of scale etc.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

Lincolnshire Archives 5 Anc. 5/A/6/1 [1825: 1:1344 [Exeter 19510]]; Lincolnshire Archives 5 Anc. 4/A/6/2 [1825, 1:396, 217 x 136]; Lincolnshire Archives 5 Anc 5/A/6/4 [1821, 1:5544, 55 x 81]; Lincolnshire Archives 5 Anc 5/A/6/5 [1825, 'Rough plan' of town, 1:6336, 52 x 81]; Lincolnshire Archives 5 Anc 5/A/6/6 [1825: Fredk. Wood: 'Plan of the parish of Spilsby', 1:4752, 69.5 x 126.5]; Lincolnshire Archives 5 Anc 5/A/6/7(i) 1821.c, 'Plan of Spilsby town &c', 1:1344, 62.5 x 53.3] [5 Anc 5/6/7(ii) is fragments of land at Hundleby, ? mid C19.]; Lincolnshire Archives 5 Anc 5/6/8 [1846: parish, 1:6336 and ? 1:2688]; Lincolnshire Archives 5 Anc 5/6/9 [1846: R.S. Booth: parish and town, 1:6336 and 1:2688]; Lincolnshire Archives 5 Anc 5/6/10 [1865: R.S. Booth: parish and town, 1:6336 and 1:2688].

Gardens:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

holdings/occupiers, fragmentary for location purposes: [Tenants on Gwydir lands].

Waterbodies:

shown

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1887

1:2500

1:10,560