Newcastle upon Tyne-1746
CBTM:
19957
Map Date:
1746
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.32.52; Newcastle Central Library, Local Studies, L.912.2 N536 (Newcastle Map Portfolio, map no. 2)
Town name:
Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NZ250640
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NZ 2664
Map title:
'...plan of Newcastle upon Tyne...'
Comments on map:
Recorded from reduced-scale photographic copy, 1936.
Scale:
1:2400
Map-maker:
Isaac Thompson [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
108.0 x 98.5
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
Buildings, land-use: Note that public buildings are coloured red to distinguish them more readily; hills shaded with Indian ink.
Colouring:
Buildings, water, land-use
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Parish churches and other notable buildings pictorial.
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial): Post-mills.
Water transport infrastructure:
quays
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: 'Panks or Fountains'.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Parish churches pictorial; includes a Methodist Meeting House.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): A table, top right, gives the distances around the walls between the gates and towers.
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, workhouses, misc: Trinity House.
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown, orchards: Orchards and gardens are very similar, if not the same.
Known copies of map:
BLML K.Top.32.52 [original]; Newcastle Library (Newcastle Map Portfolio, map no.2), Newcastle Library L.912.2 N536, L.912.1 G256 [photos].
Industry:
glass, rope walk, textiles: [The Ropery is pictorial].
Gardens:
shown: Orchards and gardens are very similar, if not the same.
Antiquities:
Black Fryers [pictorial].
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Flags, cannon (one firing) and shot, drum, etc, surround combined title and dedication; fork and (possibly) growing wheat around scale. Shell-top to 'Explanation'.
Relief:
prominent hills
Symbolic elements:
Flags, cannon, shot, drum, etc: surround title and dedication; fork, wheat; surround scale.
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Four pictorial ships in river.
Dedicee of map:
HRH William, Duke of Cumberland.
Tenement boundaries group:
less built-up parts only
Ordnance Survey's
1894
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1857-8
1:500
1:2500
1894
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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