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Somerset-Queen Camel-1848

CBTM:
23429
Map Date:
1848
Repository reference:
Somerset RO DD/S/CM2
Historic county:
Somerset
Town name:
Queen Camel
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
ST596249
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
ST 5422
Map title:
'Map of the parish of Queen Camel in the county of Somerset'.
Comments on map:
Areas numbered: book of reference at DD/MI Box 10: no other text on map. Poole's usual style: the two scale bars and two authorship statements are an oddity.
Scale:
1:4752
Map-maker:
J. Poole, Landsurveyor, Sherborne, Dorset [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
84.5 x 158.0
Number of parts:
2
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, owners: Mildmay lands coloured according to whether arable, homesteads, pasture, lifehold, copyhold or in Sparkford.
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished
Known copies of map:
Somerset RO DD/S/CM2
Landowners and occupiers:
main owner only: [P.H. St. Ing. Mildmay's lands].
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Two scale-bars, both on plinths.
Estate boundary ownership:
main owner only: [P.H. St. Ing. Mildmay's lands].
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1885
1:2500
1:10,560
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