Oxfordshire-Oxford-1729 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22146

Map Date:

? 1729

Repository reference:

BOL Gough Maps 182

Historic county:

Oxfordshire

Town name:

Oxford

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP513063

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 5206

Map title:

'Plan de la Ville de Oxford'.

Comments on map:

BL copy on fol.O.2 of Oxonia illustrata, Leide: Pieree Vander Aa, n.d. [? 1730]. In Gezichten der steeden Jorck en Lancaster en andere omleggende plaatzen, Amsterdam: Gerrit Tielenburg, n.d. [? 1731]. Scale of 'Pieds Anglais'; all other text in English.

Scale:

1:10,800

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

16.0 x 12.8 [plate 16.8 x 13.3].

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BL 577.a.13-20 [1707: Plan de la ville d'Oxford, in J. Beeverell, Les delices del la Grand' Bretagne, III, p.579 (8 vols)]; BL 291.c.37-42, BOL Gough Gen Top 249, Gough Gen Yop 254*, MS.Top.Oxon c.300(190) [1727: 8 vols]; BOL Gough Maps 182, G.A. Oxon 4o 494, J.Maps 279[40] & [41] [1731: G. Tielenburg: Oxonia Illustrata, of het verheetlykt].

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms

Antiquities:

Frier Bacons Study, ruins of fortifications, monastic sites.

Arms and heraldry:

university colleges, municipal: [Bottom centre: one shield, university to left, town to right].

Tenement boundaries group:

generalised/schematic

Ordnance Survey's

1873-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897-8

1:2500

1:10,560