Norfolk-Kings Lynn-1797 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18233

Map Date:

1797

Repository reference:

[Private collection]

Historic county:

Norfolk

Town name:

Kings Lynn

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TF617198

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TF 5920

Map title:

'Plan of the Town of Lynn showing the Entrance of the Proposed Cut to Eau Brink'.

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, Faden's Map of Norfolk, Dereham: Larks Press, 1989, with scale and dimensions compensated.

Scale:

1:7920

Map-maker:

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

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

21.1 x 21.1

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours: Note engraved that proposed cut and embankment are coloured yellow.

Colouring:

other: Proposed cut and embankment.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

town gates, town walls

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

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:

bricks/tiles, lime/cement, rope walk

River and foreshore features:

sea walls, sluices, misc: Proposed cut to Eau Brink.

Antiquities:

Old Fish Ponds, monastic establishments.

Symbolic elements:

Prince of Wales feathers: at top of north point.

Crosses:

cross

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Stated measuerments:

soundings

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560