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Norfolk-Downham Market-1818

CBTM:
22535
Map Date:
1818
Repository reference:
Norfolk RO Hare 5185 231x2
Historic county:
Norfolk
Town name:
Downham Market
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TF611032
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TF 6107
Map title:
'Plan of the entire parishes of Stow Bardolph, Downham, Wimbotsham, Shouldham, Shouldham Thorpe, and Marham... particularly showing the Stow Hall estate belonging to Sir Thomas Hare Bart... Surveyed by John Wiggins between the years 1811 and 1818.'
Comments on map:
Notably minute mapping of town and surrounding fields, though not part of the Hare estates.
Scale:
1:25,344
Map-maker:
John Wiggins [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
39.7 x 100.0
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
roads, water, land-use, owners, decorative
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Known copies of map:
Norfolk RO Hare 5185 231x2.
Relief:
prominent hills
Ordnance Survey's
1884-5
1:2500
1:10,560
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