Norfolk-Great Yarmouth-1797 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18235

Map Date:

1797

Repository reference:

[Private collection]

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.'

Comments on map:

Inset on 'A Topographical Map of the County of Norfolk Surveyed ... 1790...94', London: William Faden, 1797: recorded from reproduction in J.C. Barringer (int), Faden's Map of Norfolk, Dereham: Larks Press, 1989, with scale and dimensions compensated.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

Thos Donald and Thos Milne [sv], William Faden [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

36.0 x 18.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

town gates, town walls: Also Moat.

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 4315(10), BOL (E)C17:45(21), Gough Maps Norfolk 29, C17 a.8, CUL Maps.R.a.28, Norwich Library Box XXXII, 3.93, TNA [PRO] MPH 1/230, RGS Eng & Wales D.47; BOL C17:45 d.3, CUL Maps.b.77.97.1 1-6 [introduction at 1, 7] [1973: intro by J.C. Barringer, pb Norfolk Record Society]; [1973], BOL C17:45 c.1 [1989], Norwich Library C912(QO), Box IX, 3.101 [J.C. Barringer (int), Faden's Map of Norfolk, Dereham: Larks Press, 1989].

Industry:

distilling, rope walk

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Waterbodies:

shown

Symbolic elements:

Prince of Wales feathers: at top of north point. (The main map also has these, but the Swaffham map does not.)

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Crane.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560