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Northamptonshire-Oundle-1824

CBTM:
22350
Map Date:
1824
Repository reference:
CUL Maps.bb.19.36
Historic county:
Northamptonshire
Town name:
Oundle
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
TL039882
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TL 0184
Map title:
'Plan of the streets with the projected improvements in the town of Oundle in the county of Northampton 1824'.
Comments on map:
Recorded from photographs of original in Oundle, photographed in 1982: not very clear. Scale of feet: possibly 1 inch to 50 ft, now 1 inch to 180 feet: dimensions similarly compensated.
Scale:
1:600
Map-maker:
G. Cumming, Land Surveyor, Oundle [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
70 x 140
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, roads, land-use
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Frontages only.
Sanitary and utility information:
fire stations: 'Engine House'.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Parish church shown inn plan.
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
CUL Maps.bb.19.G.36 [photo].
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
On right: former market house; entrance gates to church.
Map material:
parchment
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
incomplete
Ordnance Survey's
1884
1:2500
1:10,560
1899
1:2500
1:10,560
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