Shropshire-Shrewsbury-1795 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22493

Map Date:

? 1795

Repository reference:

BL 1607/1638

Historic county:

Shropshire

Town name:

Shrewsbury

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ492124

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 4712

Map title:

[Centre top, outside:] 'Engraved for Minshull's Shrewsbury Guide'; [top right, inside:] 'Plan of Shrewsbury'.

Comments on map:

Follows title in T. Minshull, The Shrewsbury visitor's pocket companion: or, Salopian guide and directory..., Shrewsbury: 'the booksellers', n.d., noted in pencil as 1795 or 1796. Both map and the frontispiece (of new St Chad's church) are printed in reddish-brown. Map has numbers, but no reference is provided, and the numbers do not seem to be used in the text of the book, which includes a directory.

Scale:

1:10,800*

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

15.3 x 12.5

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, (pictorial)

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BOL Gough Salop 3 [1786]; BL 1607/1638 [1797: in T. Minshull, The Shrewsbury Guide].

Gardens:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Top left: Guildhall.

Ordnance Survey's

1879-80

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900-01

1:2500

1:10,560