Newcastle upon Tyne-1788
CBTM:
19362
Map Date:
1788
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.32.55
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:
''A plan of Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead, 1788.'
Comments on map:
In John Brand, The history and antiquities of the town and county of the town of Newcastle upon Tyne, London: White etc, 1789, I, f.p. 1.
Scale:
1:6336
Map-maker:
R. Beilby [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
44.7 x 31.3
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
partly
Building names:
royal palaces: [Kings maner
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Sanitary and utility information:
Q
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Public buildings:
misc: Mansion House.
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals, infirmaries, mental, misc: Trinity House.
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Known copies of map:
BLML K.Top.32.55, BOL Gough Northumberland 2, Gough Northumberland Maps 21, BS 4o 92, CUL maps.bb.79.78.1, Gateshead Library MP 2/13, Northumberland RO ZFO 15, TNA [PRO] Library, Tyne & Wear Archives D/NCP/2/8 [1788]; Newcastle Library L.912.2 N536 [acc. Cr 956180A, LRS 6597] [Four maps of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Library: n.d.].
Industry:
glass, rope walk
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa
Antiquities:
Severus' Wall, Hadrians' Vallum.
Waterbodies:
shown
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top right: 'Perspective View of the White Cross', and map 'Defcribed by William Matthew' '(Vide Speeds Maps 1610)'; bottom centre left, 'Front of the Publick Baths'.
Relief:
prominent hills
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial boats and shipping in river.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Cemeteries:
shown: At Ballast Hill, with 'gravestones'.
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
ballast hills
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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