Northamptonshire-Kettering-1734 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20840

Map Date:

1734

Repository reference:

Northamptonshire RO Map 2736

Historic county:

Northamptonshire

Town name:

Kettering

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP868783

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 8387

Map title:

'A map of the mannor of Kettering in the county of Northampton belonging to the most noble John Duke of Montagu and the Right Honourable the Earl of Rockingham as survey'd by William Brasier anno 1727 and by the same hand map'd ao. 1734.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy. Record applies only to the town mapping. Fields and strips numbered: cadastre elsewhere.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

William Brasier [sv, dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

120 x 101 [irregular].

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, estate

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Pump [pictorial].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

Northamptonshire RO Map 2736 [photo].

Gardens:

shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Arms and heraldry:

principal landowner.: [Presumably Montagu's].

Map material:

parchment

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560