Northamptonshire-Brackley-1760 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20849

Map Date:

1.1760

Repository reference:

Northamptonshire RO Map 2985

Historic county:

Northamptonshire

Town name:

Brackley

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SP585370

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 5636

Map title:

'A new and accurate plan of the most principal parts of the borough of Brackley in Northamptonshire. Survey'd and plan'd, Anno Dom: MDCCLX.'

Comments on map:

Purpose unclear, but pays minute attention to posts and rails. Frontages rather than depth, so cover treated as incomplete. Unfortunately the ink is somewhat faded. Harris 'decorated' the map as well as surveying and drawing it.

Scale:

1:396

Map-maker:

William Morris, Bicester, Oxfordshire [sv], John Harris, Bister, Oxfordshire [sv, dr, decorated] [sic].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

343 x 58

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

general legend

Colouring:

water, other: Fenced gardens, encroachment on waste.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

steps to buildings, walls: Single walls.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

internal revenue

Penal:

misc: Whipping Post.

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish, boundary markers: [Stone dividing Borough from Old Town].

Known copies of map:

Northamptonshire RO Map 2985.

Gardens:

shown: Distinguishes those surrounded by palisades and walls.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Waterbodies:

shown, ducking ponds: [Ducking pond with ducking stool].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Borders:

misc: Diced.

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Pictorial gateways, turnstiles, horse blocks.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Drawing instruments, including plane table and sight, bottom centre.

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

Map material:

parchment

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Sign Posts, single posts.

Walls, embankments, etc:

Posts and rails.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown: [Inns distinguished from ale houses, but colours have been lost; Queens Head sign].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1882

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560