Oxfordshire-Oxford-1817 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19104

Map Date:

1817

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:

'New map of the university and city of Oxford.'

Comments on map:

Bottom centre: 'Engraved for the Walks in Oxford, published by R. Pearson, High Street. 1817.' Bottom right: 'This Plan may be had separate. Price 1s/6d or on Canvas & in a case, 2s 6d.' [This copy is sectioned: evidently a half-crowner.]

Scale:

1:7200

Map-maker:

R. Pearson [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

43.2 x 38.6

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, infirmaries, workhouses

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges, observatories

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 4735(7), BOL (E)C17:70 Oxford (11), J.Maps 224 [27,28], G.A.Oxon a.41(47), CUL Maps.c.81.81.1, OxCL MP 144, TNA [PRO] T72/13 [all map only], BOL G.A.Oxon 8o 304 [in Walks in Oxford] [1817]; BOL G.A.Oxon 8o 599 [1825: in The perambulation of Oxford..., pb Munday & Slatter].

Industry:

paper/print: [Printing House].

Gardens:

shown, physic gardens

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc, museums, libraries/newsrooms

Antiquities:

'Remains of the Trenches' to south-west, 'Part of the Old Fortifications' to the north-west, monastic remains, Site of Friar Bacons Study.

Ordnance Survey's

1873-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897-8

1:2500

1:10,560