Shropshire-Market Drayton-1780 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20492

Map Date:

? 1780

Repository reference:

Shropshire RO 1096/1, bundle 291

Historic county:

Shropshire

Town name:

Market Drayton

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ675342

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 6734

Comments on map:

Presumably for estate purposes. Buildings are rectangular blocks: gates are large pictograms. Fields numbered: reference elsewhere. Informative as to plan and frontages only. Dated c.1780 by Shropshire RO.

Scale:

1:2376*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

166 x 110

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, uncertain: Town roads grey, others sienna, footpaths red; some fields blue, a few yellow.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, walls: Garden walls apparent from brick-like symbol.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: Apparent from plan and lack of hatching.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Shropshire RRC [Archives] 1096/1, bundle 291.

Waterbodies:

shown

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1878

1:2500

1:10,560

1899-1900

1:2500

1:10,560