Newcastle upon Tyne-1746 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

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