Northamptonshire-Thrapston-1781 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

14711

Map Date:

? 1781

Repository reference:

Northamptonshire RO Map 5085

Historic county:

Northamptonshire

Town name:

Thrapston

Map type:

Enclosure

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP996786

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 0184

Comments on map:

Muggy photograph, which renders title illegible. Author obvious from style.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

[J. Baxter [sv].]

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

79 x 46

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

shown

Known copies of map:

Northamptonshire RO Map 5085.

Decorative cartouches:

pictorial 'realistic': Title is on slab, with trees in background, alongside which is a man riding a horse, with another close by, along a road to a house.

Symbolic elements:

House, trees, man, two horses, slab: in cartouche.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Map material:

parchment

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560