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Shropshire-Bishops Castle-1820

CBTM:
18753
Map Date:
? 1820
Repository reference:
Shropshire RO Garnet Botfield 539/2/10/1/7/1
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:
'The town of Bishops Castle with several houses farms tenements and lands in the borough... the property of John Charlton Kinchant, Esqr.'
Comments on map:
Fields relate to reference elsewhere, but most of the landowners in the town seem to be identifiable.
Scale:
1:3960*
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
75.1 x 105.2
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
water
Road names:
fragmentary
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Turnpikes:
shown
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Known copies of map:
Shropshire RRC [Archives] Garnet Botfield 539/2/10/1/7/1.
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown
Waterbodies:
shown
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Tenement boundaries group:
incomplete
Ordnance Survey's
1882
1:2500
1:10,560
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