Oxfordshire-Oxford-1789
CBTM:
19102
Map Date:
1.9.1789
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] T72/13
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 city of Oxford...'
Comments on map:
Statistical table gives number of streets, buildings and inhabitants, churches, colleges, etc. Note on left that first published by Isaac Taylor in 1750, but that plates purchased by Faden and 'the whole has been re-surveyed', and improvements and alterations inserted, and three of the views are new. On two landscape-shaped plates, joined in this copy.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
Isaac Taylor [sv], William Faden, Charing Cross, London [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
85.7 x 71.4
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Turnpikes:
shown: Layout of gates shown in detail.
Mills:
watermills
Canals:
other: Line of intended canal [from north].
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town walls, misc.: City wall shown by broken lines, etc.
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 4735(2), K.Top.34.11, BOL (E)C17:70 Oxford (66), G.A. Oxon a.41(43,44), TNA [PRO] T72/13 [originals]; BOL J.Maps 224 [37] [photo: c.1:12,000].
Industry:
paper/print: [Printing House].
Gardens:
shown, physic gardens
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc, museums
Antiquities:
On south-west side, Remains of the Trenches, and on north-east, Part of the Old Fortifications.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative: Four, round dedication (roccoco and fish-scale ornament) and references (mirror surrounds).
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top left: Peckwater Square; top right: Christ Church; bottom left: Observatory; bottom right: 'Magdalen New Building from the Grove'. All but last noted as new to this version.
Symbolic elements:
Putti or winds: above left-hand (compilation and statistical) cartouche.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Arms and heraldry:
university colleges, municipal: [University].
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
pounds/pinfolds: [Penn, i.e. pinfold].
Dedicee of map:
Chancellor, Vice Chancellor, Heads of Colleges, High Steward, Mayor, Aldermen '&c'.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1873-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1897-8
1:2500
1:10,560
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