Somerset-Wells-1735 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18528

Map Date:

1735

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.38.9

Historic county:

Somerset

Town name:

Wells

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST549457

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 5745

Map title:

'A plan of the city of Wells. By William Simes'.

Comments on map:

Long description of city on each side of title. The pictorial buildings give something of a birds-eye-view effect.

Scale:

1:1728

Map-maker:

William Simes [delin], [W.H.] Toms [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

71.3 x 50.3 [actual map area 71.0 x 37.5].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Sanitary and utility information:

conduits, misc: Named well and pump.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

town gates, town walls, (pictorial): Round close rather than round city.

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML K.Top.38.9, BOL Gough Maps Somerset 5, Som. RO DD/SAS PR 504, Somerset Studies [original]; Somerset Studies [copy].

Industry:

lime/cement: With pictorial lime-kiln [bottom right].

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, libraries/newsrooms

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Crosses:

cross

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial buildings: people and vehicles in streets, animals in fields.

Arms and heraldry:

ecclesiastical, municipal: [Both see and deanery].

Ordnance Survey's

1885

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560