Shropshire-Bishops Castle-1809 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18754

Map Date:

1809

Repository reference:

Shropshire RO Powis Castle 552/8/639

Historic county:

Shropshire

Town name:

Bishops Castle

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO324889

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 3287

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Bishops Castle'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from reliable-looking photocopy.

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

Stephen Sayce [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

43.5 x 58.7

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, land-use: Buildings according (probably) to Powis estates or otherwise; gardens.

Buildings:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

Shropshire RO 552/8/639 (Powis Collection).

Gardens:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1882

1:2500

1:10,560