Oxfordshire-Oxford-1797 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18561

Map Date:

1.8.1797

Repository reference:

University of Exeter, Department of Geography

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:

'A plan of the City of Oxford'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from facsmile issued by Philip Riden, Oxford, in 1975. Inset on Davis's 1:126,720 map of Oxfordshire, in turn reduced from the map of Oxford on his 1:31,680 map of Oxfordshire, surveyed in 1793-4, to which this 1:126,720 map acts as an index.

Scale:

1:9504

Map-maker:

Richard Davis, Lewknor [sv], J.Cary [eng, pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

22.0 x 14.5 [irregular].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

important roads only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

watermills

Canals:

shown, wharf

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls

Welfare and charitable:

infirmaries, workhouses

Education and academic:

observatories

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BOL C17:49 a.1, Gough Maps Oxfordshire 19, C17 a.8, CUL Atlas.2.79.3 [1797]; BOL G.A.Oxon b.210 [1973: facsimile in Old Oxford, pb Steeple Books]; BOL (E)C17:49 (239), CUL Atlas.1.97.18 [1975: P. Riden].

Gardens:

physic gardens

Antiquities:

Remains of old fortifications and trenches, Monastic remains.

Commons:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1873-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897-8

1:2500

1:10,560