Norfolk-Wells next the Sea-1780
CBTM:
22562
Map Date:
1780
Repository reference:
Norfolk RO B.L. 42/4
Historic county:
Norfolk
Town name:
Wells next the Sea
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TF916434
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TF 9340
Map title:
'A survey of the Town of Wells; the haven, lands, marshes, sands, miels, and coast adjoining Survey'd by H.A. Biedermann. 1780'.
Comments on map:
Prepared in connexion with a lawsuit: foreshore, etc, shown inn great detail, with notes of spring tide overflowings, etc, notes of dates of embanking, and reference to areas embanked, but tOWN Fs rather rudimentary. Some mid-19th-century-looking sans-serif lettering, e.g. 'Wells Town', but seems genuine.
Scale:
1:6336
Map-maker:
H.A. Biedermann [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
144.0 x 88.0
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
roads, water, land-use, decorative
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Water transport infrastructure:
quays, navigation aids
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only: Apparent from stippling of churchyard.
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Norfolk RO B.L. 42/4.
River and foreshore features:
foreshore, foreshore material specified: In great detail.
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative: A sort of multi-colour Adam-ceiling-rose effect: strikingly individual.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Bottom left: cross-section of an embankment.
Relief:
prominent hills
Borders:
decorative
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial vessels of various sizes in sea.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland
Stated measuerments:
other: Numerous acreages.
Ordnance Survey's
1885
1:2500
1:10,560
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