Norfolk-Great Yarmouth-1779 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18631

Map Date:

31.8.1779

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MPH 1/359

Historic county:

Norfolk

Town name:

Great Yarmouth

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TG523080

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TG 5207

Map title:

'Plan of Great Yarmouth, survey'd by the late Mr Henry Swinden.'

Comments on map:

Note at top of map explaining how Swinden, 'with indefatigable Accuracy', completed the plan at 1 inch to 33 yds [1:1188], 4 ft 9 ins x 2 ft 4 ins [145 x 71 cm], but died 11 Jan 1772 aet 55; it passed to John Ives, FSA, who died soon after, & was then sold to the Corporation, who allowed Armstrong to make a copy in June 1779. 'Pro bono Publico.' Price 3s.6d. Long letterpress description below the engraved area. A photocopy of the manuscript version is described at Exeter 22573.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

Henry Swinden [sv], Mostyn Jno. Armstrong, County Surveyor [dr], S. Pyle, Angel Court, Snow Hill, London [eng], Eaton & Chicheley, Yarmouth [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

69.5 x 39.2 [engraved area: 69.5 x 52.5 with letterpress].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, misc: Crane.

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Three named wells.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

town gates, town walls

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BLML K.Top.31.39.3, BOL Gough Maps Norfolk 26, CUL Maps.C.77.77.1, Norwich Library 3.50, TNA [PRO] MPH 1/359 (WO 78/1451) [1779]; Yarmouth Library [1779: photocopy]; Norwich Library 3.50 [1803]; TNA [PRO] T72/14 [1824.c]; Library 3.50 [1840 or earlier].

Industry:

food/drink, stone/builders' yards, lime/cement, rope walk, warehousing, timber

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Antiquities:

Monastic remains.

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom left: vignette of St Nicholas Church; bottom right: 'General view of Great Yarmouth and its environs, by M.I.A.' [i.e. Armstrong], 1:63,360.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Dedicee of map:

Rt Hon Charles Townshend and Hon Richard Walpole, MPs for the borough.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560