Northamptonshire-Daventry-1788 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20838

Map Date:

11.2.1788

Repository reference:

Northamptonshire RO Map 1701

Historic county:

Northamptonshire

Town name:

Daventry

Map type:

Highways

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SP575627

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 5863

Map title:

'A plan of the streets in Daventry in the county of Northampton which are intended to be new paved with an explanation of the same 11th Feby. 1788'.

Comments on map:

'Explanation of the plan' is a very long verbal description of what is intended. Shows little more than the main stret, but frontages and (presumably) occupiers are shown in considerable detail.

Scale:

1:396

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

98.0 x 66.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

utilities, other: Newly-paved areas.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

drains, misc: Pumps, Water-House.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets: Including Toll-House.

Known copies of map:

Northamptonshire RO Map 1701.

Landowners and occupiers:

holdings/occupiers: [Presumably occupiers rather than owners].

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom left: section through 3.5-inch diameter, 6-inch square 'Soughing Bricks' [drain].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:2500

1:10,560

199

1:2500

1:10,560