Northamptonshire-Peterborough-1721
CBTM:
20845
Map Date:
? 1721
Repository reference:
Peterborough Central Library, local studies, map cabinet, drawer 'Old Peterborough maps'
Historic county:
Northamptonshire
Town name:
Peterborough
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TL193986
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TL 1799
Map title:
'A plan of the city of Peterborough.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from photocopy: location of original uncertain. According to a label stuck on this is by Thomas Eayre, 1721. Numbers 1-60: conjectural reference made in 1955 on back. Scale is graduated in feet, but 1 inch to 330 feet/110 yards/5 chains, 1:3960, seems to best fit.
Scale:
1:3960
Map-maker:
? Thomas Eayre [? author].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
34.5 x 40.0
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
clergy residences
Buildings:
shown
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
misc: Minster precincts.
Known copies of map:
Northamptonshire RO Map 2862, Peterborough Library [photos].
Gardens:
shown
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Antiquities:
Cloisters, etc, indicated in some detail.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1884-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1900
1:2500
1:10,560
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