Norfolk-Downham Market-1851
CBTM:
22536
Map Date:
7.1851
Repository reference:
Norfolk RO Hare 5186 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.'
Comments on map:
Notably minute mapping of town and surrounding fields, though not part of the Hare estates. Not quite as finished as Exeter 22535, from which it is an obvious derivative. 'By John Wiggins July 1851' added in ordinary handwriting below title.
Scale:
1:25,344
Map-maker:
John Wiggins [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
39.7 x 94.0
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 5186 231x2.
Railways:
routes, named
Relief:
prominent hills
Ordnance Survey's
1884-5
1:2500
1:10,560
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