Oxfordshire-Oxford-1768
CBTM:
18605
Map Date:
1768
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] MR 1/289
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 of the university and city of Oxford.'
Comments on map:
Inset on Jeffrey's 1:63,360 map of Oxfordshire, surveyed 1766-7. Scale measured as 1 inch to 6.25 chains, 1:4950. Statistics as to parishes, colleges, halls and population in 1750.
Scale:
1:4950
Map-maker:
Thomas Jeffreys [author], Richd H. Laurie, 53 Fleet St [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
45.3 x 37.3 [irregular].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
watermills
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town walls: [Wall is fragmentary].
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges, misc: 'The School'.
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
scattered tree cover: [Christ Church Walk].
Known copies of map:
BLML K.34.6.2 Tab, BOL C17:49 d.1, C17:49 d.2, (E)C17:49 (209), CUL Atlas.2.76.7,14, TNA [PRO] MR 289 [1768/9]; BLML Maps 4710(6), BOL Gough Maps Oxfordshire 17 [1775: pb Sayer]; RGS Eng & Wales S/D 68 [1780]; OxCL MP 173 [says 6.5'', 46 x 38 cm]; BOL (E)C17:49 (169) [1818]; CUL Atlas.2.77.7,14- [1820.c]
Industry:
paper/print, textiles: Printing House.
Gardens:
physic gardens
Leisure and entertainment:
museums, libraries/newsrooms, misc: Music Room.
Antiquities:
Fryer Bacon Study [at Grandpont Bridge], Abbey remains.
Decorative cartouches:
pictorial 'realistic': Title of main map is on the sail of a barge passing the City of Oxford.
Commons:
shown
Borders:
decorative
Arms and heraldry:
university colleges, municipal: [University].
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
pounds/pinfolds
Geodetic notes:
Positions of the Observatory at Oxford given according to 'Requishite Tables', 'Dr Horsby' and 'Trigonl Survey' on the inset, and a note that 'In this Survey the Principal Angles were taken by the Theodolite, & the Roads were measured by the Chain & Transcribed on the Plain Table in the Field. NB. This Edition has been corrected in Latitude and Longitude in Conformity with the Results of the Recent Trigonometrical Survey of England and Wales.'
Ordnance Survey's
1873-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1897-8
1:2500
1:10,560
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