Somerset-Glastonbury-1821 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

12200

Map Date:

1821

Repository reference:

Somerset RO DD/SAS C/212

Historic county:

Somerset

Town name:

Glastonbury

Map type:

Rating

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST498388

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 5038

Comments on map:

St John the Baptist and St Benedict, Glastonbury: books of reference are stated to be in Somerset RO at D/P/gla.j 13/1/9 (St Johns) and D/P/gla.b 13/1/1.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

H.B. Guy, Hinton [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

290 x 219

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

general legend: 'Explanation': 'Buildings in the Parish of Saint John' (light carmine and blue), 'Ditto Saint Benedict' (orangy carmine and grey; these niceties do not show up well), 'Hedges', 'Ditches' (double line with asterisks), 'Orchards', 'Woods and Plantations', 'Roads' (hedges each side), 'Brooks and Rivers', 'Gates and Stiles' (stiles lack diagonal), 'Lands in the Parish of Saint John' (uncoloured) and 'Ditto in Saint Benedict' (green).

Colouring:

Buildings, water, boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

fragmentary

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

DD/SAS C/212, 'Glastonbury c.1820' [1820: 1:3168], Somerset RO DD/SAS C/212 'Glastonbury, 1821(a)' [1821], [1820: 1:3168] [UFP], DD/SAS C/212 'Glastonbury 1821(b)', [1821: 1:6336], DD/SAS C/212 'Glastonbury 1821(c)' [1821] [UFP] [Books of reference: St John, D/P/gla.j.13/1/9; St Benedict, D/P/gla.b.13/1/1].

Antiquities:

'The Tor' [black square in square enclosure], Ruins [of abbey: not shown in plan].

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

slopes shown

Commons:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:2500

1:10,560