Oxfordshire-Gloucester-1729 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22147

Map Date:

? 1729

Repository reference:

BL G.3609, BOL Gough Maps 182

Historic county:

Oxfordshire

Town name:

Gloucester

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO831186

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 8318

Map title:

'Glocester. Glovernia. Claudiocestria.'

Comments on map:

BL copy on fol.O.44 of Oxonia illustrata, Leide: Pieree Vander Aa, n.d. [? 1730]. Bodleian copy in: Gezichten der steeden Jorck en Lancaster en andere omleggende plaatzen, Amsterdam: Gerrit Tielenburg, n.d. [? 1731]. Speed-derived: text in English.

Scale:

1:10,000*

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

12.7 x 11.3 [plate 13.2 x 11.5].

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Known copies of map:

BL G.3609(1), BOL Gough Maps 182, G.A. Oxon. 4o 494.

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

Monastic sites.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Mild scrolling.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal: [Above title].

Ordnance Survey's

1881-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560