Northamptonshire-Northampton-1768 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20842

Map Date:

[1768]

Repository reference:

Northamptonshire RO Map 1114

Historic county:

Northamptonshire

Town name:

Northampton

Map type:

Miscellaneous

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP755604

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 7562

Comments on map:

General map and 27 detail maps showing Northampton as at the 1768 election: wrapped in indenture printed in 1867 and possibly drawn then. Steets and occupiers only. Rather a borderline case (is it a copy of something original?), but included here as an unusual item.

Scale:

1:2376*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

28 x 36 [x 28: nominal].

Number of parts:

28

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Named well.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

Northamptonshire RO Map 1114; Northamptonshire Public Library, Northamptonshire Room [copy].

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1883-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560