Norfolk-Methwold-1796 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18628

Map Date:

1796

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/207

Historic county:

Norfolk

Town name:

Methwold

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL735947

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 7096

Map title:

'A plan of the parish of Methwold in the county of Norfolk distinguishing the estates belonging to the King's most excellent majesty in right of his Duchy of Lancaster'.

Comments on map:

This seems to be a complete replacement of the 1772 mapping [Exeter 18626-7]; the upland part of the parish is still unenclosed.

Scale:

1:7920

Map-maker:

Tho. Bainbridge, Greys Inn [sv, dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

229.0 x 90.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, water, land-use, decorative: Decoration round scale bar.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

windmills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/207.

Decorative cartouches:

pictorial 'realistic': Man with axe working on felled tree in foreground, to left of title: man staring at ruins to right; behind title are classical Roman ruins, and behind that a church with spire, presumably Methwold, and also an outsize postmill, hills and ? sea with boats: unrealistic compared with the Norfolk reality.

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Symbolic elements:

Ruins, church, men working, boats: in title.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Map material:

parchment

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:2500

1:10,560