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Somerset-Wells-1800

CBTM:
23445
Map Date:
? 1800
Repository reference:
Somerset RO D/D/Rt 370
Historic county:
Somerset
Town name:
Wells
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
ST549457
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
ST 5745
Map title:
'St Cuthbert's'.
Comments on map:
Dated c.1800 in Somerset RO list. Fields outside built-up area numbered: no reference available. This looks like a smaller-scale derivative of the 1788 map [Exeter 23444], but with more detail of tenement divisions in the built-up part.
Scale:
1:15,840*
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
71.7 x 76.2
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
uncertain: Possibly estate-related.
Building names:
clergy residences
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Known copies of map:
Somerset RO D/D/Rt 370
Tenement boundaries group:
incomplete
Ordnance Survey's
1885
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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