Oxfordshire-Bampton-1789 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20478

Map Date:

1789

Repository reference:

BLML Maps c.7.c.16

Historic county:

Oxfordshire

Town name:

Bampton

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SP323032

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 3206

Map title:

'A plan of the Bampton estate in the county of Oxford 1789.'

Comments on map:

In 'A survey valuation and plans of ... estates... belonging to the Right Honourable Charles Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury... Volume 1st... by Tho. Bainbridge of Guilford Street.', f.p.34. Fragmentary mapping of town.

Scale:

1:5544

Map-maker:

Thomas Bainbridge, Guilford Street [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

82.0 x 52.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, uncertain: Some strips green.

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted.: Colours according to whether owned by Shrewsbury estate.

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.7.e.16(3); Oxfordshire Archives Photo 79; Oxfordshire Archives Shrew.X/1, also Photo 80 [1789, Bainbridge: another version, on library spring-roller: has cartouche with open-trestle post-mill].

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Shield, with tree background.

Symbolic elements:

Trees: backing title.

Map material:

parchment

Ordnance Survey's

1876

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560