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Norfolk-Great Yarmouth-1753

CBTM:
22573
Map Date:
1753
Repository reference:
Norfolk RO Y/PP 4
Historic county:
Norfolk
Town name:
Great Yarmouth
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TG523080
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TG 5207
Map title:
'... tabula ab Henrico Swinden 1753.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from photocopies, of an original then at Great Yarmouth Library: published version is at Exeter 18631.
Scale:
1:1188
Map-maker:
Henry Swinden [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
145 x 71
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
Buildings: Entries, covered ways, gates, wards, garden paths, bath houses, buildings and open sheds, gates or doors.
Colouring:
Buildings, land-use
Road names:
partly: Not rows.
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished
Water transport infrastructure:
quays, misc: Norwich Warehouse, crane [pictorial]. Quay noted as longest in Britain, or perhaps all Europe, except possibly Seville.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only: Interior layout of St Nicholas shown.
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates: Mounds noted.
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Public/administrative boundaries:
Ward
Known copies of map:
Norfolk RO Y/PP4 [photocopy, of Yarmouth Library 18/2].
Industry:
distilling, abbatoirs: ['The distill-House': sic].
Stated measuerments:
other: Length of quay: about 1044 yards.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1883
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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