Somerset-Watchet-1801
CBTM:
23434
Map Date:
1801
Repository reference:
Somerset RO DD/WY 1801
Historic county:
Somerset
Town name:
Watchet, Williton
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
ST072432
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
ST 0242
Map title:
[Map map:] 'A general plan of the manors of Williton Regis, Williton Handley, Williton Fulford, Watchet and Washford, situate in the parishes of St Decumans, Old Cleeve & Sampford Brett, in the county od Somerset, belonging to the Right Honourable the Earl of Egremont. M.DCCC.I.', [enlargements:] 'Watchet Town and Borough', 'Williton'.
Comments on map:
Similar style to the Wiveliscome map of 1816 [Exeter 23433], with the main map at 1:3168 and the towns also mapped at 1:1584. Fields numbered: reference at DD/WY 1801 Survey A.
Scale:
1:1584*
Map-maker:
C. Chilcott, Surveyor, Crowcombe [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
206 x 235
Number of parts:
3
Legends:
general legend
Colouring:
other: Tenure.
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished: Main map only: houses black, other buildings hatched.
Water transport infrastructure:
quays
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish
Known copies of map:
Somerset RO DD/WY 1801
Gardens:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: With tree, barrels, anchor, sail and Brittania with cornucopia
Symbolic elements:
Tree, barrels, anchor, sail, Brittania with cornucopia: in cartouche.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Reference system:
squaring: 1.0-mile.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1886
1:2500
1:10,560
1886
1:2500
1:10,560
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