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Shropshire-Hodnet-1815

CBTM:
15364
Map Date:
1815
Repository reference:
Shropshire RO 2275/343-349
Historic county:
Shropshire
Town name:
Hodnet
Map type:
Rating
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SJ613286
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SJ 5630
Comments on map:
'Taken for the Purpose of Regulating the Poor's Rate'.
Scale:
1:4752
Map-maker:
Thos Fenna [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
68 x 99, 84 x 57, 85 x 57, 62 x 50, [59 x 49], 60 x 47, 114 x 98, 99 x 68
Number of parts:
8
Colouring:
Buildings, roads
Buildings:
shown
Mills:
(unspecified type)
Water transport infrastructure:
boat houses
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Well.
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
township
Known copies of map:
Shropshire RO 2275/343-349.
Gardens:
shown
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Decorative cartouches:
pictorial 'realistic': In a wooded landscape a kneeling boy or young man is attending to what could be a box of rats, holding one slightly vulpine dog by the collar whilst another takes an interest in what is behind the door.
Symbolic elements:
Boy, dogs, rat cage (?), trees: in cartouche.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
kennels
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1879
1:2500
1:10,560
1900
1:2500
1:10,560
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