Somerset-Bath-1744 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21391

Map Date:

5.3.1744

Repository reference:

BLML Maps *5041 (11)

Historic county:

Somerset

Town name:

Bath

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST750647

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 7468

Map title:

'An actual survey of the City of Bath, in the county of Somerset, and of five miles round.'

Comments on map:

Circular. 'Survey'd by Tho. Thorpe in the year 1742.' Publication year given as 1743-4. Scale graduated round border of map (an unusual arrangement). Detailed naming via reference. Subscribers listed on left-hand side.

Scale:

1:15,840

Map-maker:

Thomas Thorpe, Land Surveyor [sv, pb], Mr Leake, Booksellers, Bath, Mr Hitch, Paternoster Row, London [sell].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

101.5 x 103.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Water transport infrastructure:

wharfs

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

county

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 5041(11), K.Top.37.9.2.TAB.END, BOL Gough Somerset 24, Gough Maps Somerset 7, CUL Maps.BB.84.74.1, Som. RO DD/NNE8 C/1375 [1744]; Bath Library [photo of detail]. [A version is 1:42,240: BLML Maps 5041(1), BOL (E)C17:54(15) [1771]; BLML Maps 5041(8) [1772]; BLML K.Top. 37.10, 37.11, BOL Gough Maps Somerset 10 [1773]; BLML K.Top.37.11 [1787]; BLML Maps 5041(2) [1788]].

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa: [Including Pump Room].

Landowners and occupiers:

notable residents: [e.g. Mr Allen].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Round dedication: conventional rococco.

Relief:

prominent hills

Borders:

distance-graduated type

Reference system:

distance circles: 1-mile intervals.

Ferries:

ferry

Dedicee of map:

'... the nobility and gentry, the worthy subscribers, and encouragers of this work...'

Ordnance Survey's

1882-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1882-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560