Northumberland-Berwick upon Tweed-1725
CBTM:
19686
Map Date:
1725
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.32.46
Historic county:
Northumberland
Town name:
Berwick upon Tweed
Map type:
Military
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NT997530
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NT 9953
Map title:
'A plan of Berwick upon Tweed. 1725.'
Comments on map:
Though dated 1725, this copy may be very much later. Standard Board of Ordnance style, both in content and cartography: a military rather than an urban map.
Scale:
1:3600
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
65.0 x 50.7
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, other: Multi-colour treatment of bastions, foreshore, and foreshore rocks.
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Usual Board of Ordnance block plan approach.
Water transport infrastructure:
misc: Dolphin.
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Pumps, with spring ('Fountain Head') that supplies them.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, misc.: Demolished castle and fortifications, old line of communication to old redoubt; named bastions, Store House, Main Guard, Governors House.
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Public/administrative boundaries:
misc: Town boundary on bridge.
Known copies of map:
BLML K.Top.32.46 [original]; Berwick RO 2480 [photo].
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Relief:
slopes shown
Estate boundary ownership:
fragmentary: Boundaries of King's ground.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
misc: Ground where stood houses blown up in 1715.
Stated measuerments:
soundings: In river, presumably in feet.
Ordnance Survey's
1851
1:528
1856
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1897
1:2500
1:10,560
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