Norfolk-Cromer-1747 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22578

Map Date:

1747

Repository reference:

Norwich Library Local Studies [maps] 3.49

Historic county:

Norfolk

Town name:

Cromer

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TG219422

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TG 1940

Map title:

'An accurate survey of the town of Cromer in Norfolk taken in the year 1747 by Samuel Bellard Surveyor'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from plausible-looking transcript on tracing linen: original in Cromer Museum.

Scale:

1:4752*

Map-maker:

Samuel Bellard, Surveyor [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

58 x 41

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial): Quite realistic-looking.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Cromer Museum [original]; Norwich Library 3.49 [photo]; Norfolk RO MF/RO 476/5 [microfilm].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial vessels in sea.

Ordnance Survey's

1885

1:2500

1:10,560