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Rutland-Oakham-1787

CBTM:
18237
Map Date:
1787
Repository reference:
[Private collection]
Historic county:
Rutland
Town name:
Oakham
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
SK861098
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SK 8604
Map title:
'A Map of the Scite of certain Houses Homesteads and Old Inclosures at Oakham in the County of Rutland belonging to the Right Honble George Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham Surveyed in 1787 by Wm Cullingworth'.
Comments on map:
Recorded from copy issued by Leicestershire RO before 1991, with scale and dimensions provisionally compensated. Estate map with blank areas in the town centre. Book of Reference at Leicestershire RO Finch MSS DG7/1/81/1.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
Wm Cullingworth [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
93 x 65
Number of parts:
9
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, owners, decorative: Direction pointer (multi-colour), greyish scale and cartouche, Winchilsea lands.
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Defence and military:
misc.: Castle Yard.
Known copies of map:
Leicestershire RO [copy].
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1884
1:2500
1:10,560
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