Norfolk-Castle Acre-1779 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21062

Map Date:

? 1779

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 37.D.42

Historic county:

Norfolk

Town name:

Castle Acre

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TF818153

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TF 8317

Map title:

'Castle Acre.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from much-reduced photograph (? about 30 %) of original at Holkham Hall. Perhaps to be identified with a series of maps of the Holkham estates made in 1779. Fields named and numbered: lack of other text.

Scale:

1:9504

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

54 x 66

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 37.d.42, Norfolk RO MS 20658 308x2 [photo from Holkham MS].

Antiquities:

Priory and castle remains apparent in plan, but no described.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:2500

1:10,560