Somerset-Wells-1827 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23446

Map Date:

1827

Repository reference:

Somerset RO DD/CC 7183

Historic county:

Somerset

Town name:

Wells

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST549457

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 5745

Map title:

'A plan of the manor of Wells in the county of Somerset belonging to the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells 1827'.

Comments on map:

Fields outside built-up part numbered: no reference apparently available. The map looks as though it might derive from the 1788 map [Exeter 23444].

Scale:

1:6336

Map-maker:

George Layng Miller, Land Surveyor [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

141 x 231

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, water, uncertain: Perhaps estate-related.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: Indicated by cross-hatching.

Known copies of map:

Somerset RO DD/CC 7183

Waterbodies:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

less built-up parts only

Ordnance Survey's

1885

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560