Somerset-Nether Stowey-1750 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23428

Map Date:

? 1750

Repository reference:

Somerset RO DD/SAS(a) C/1207

Historic county:

Somerset

Town name:

Nether Stowey

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

ST195396

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 1537

Map title:

'This plan is of that part of Nether Stowey mannor... being ye land and inheritance of Robert Balch Esqr....'

Comments on map:

Excludes that part of village round church, though drawn to neat line. Dated c.1750 in Somerset RO list. Areas lettered: no reference available. Monochrome, but elaborately decorated, though now rather worn.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

T. England [sv, dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

68.0 x 118.5

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

Somerset RO DD/SAS(a) C/1207

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Large, rococco.

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom: possibly a school.

Borders:

decorative: Broad, with flowers.

Symbolic elements:

Putti, deer: at top of map.

Arms and heraldry:

principal landowner.

Map material:

parchment

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1885

1:2500

1:10,560