Somerset-Ilminster-1768 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23420

Map Date:

1768

Repository reference:

Somerset RO DD/CA 165

Historic county:

Somerset

Town name:

Ilminster

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST359148

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 3619

Map title:

'An accurate plan and survey of the manor and town of Ilminster... the property of the Right Honourable Frederick Lord North of Willington...'

Comments on map:

Plots are identified, but no reference seems to be available. As often with estate maps covering small towns, there is little text.

Scale:

1:3960

Map-maker:

Samuel Donne, Melbury Osmond, near Yeovil, Dorset [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

124 x 146

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

decorative

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

Somerset RO DD/CA 165

Borders:

decorative

Arms and heraldry:

principal landowner.: [Large, with supporters].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1885-6

1:2500

1:10,560