Staffordshire-Lichfield-1781
CBTM:
18321
Map Date:
1781
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.38.44
Historic county:
Staffordshire
Town name:
Lichfield
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SK118096
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SK 1807
Map title:
'A Plan of the City and Close of Lichfield from Actual Survey by John Snape 1781'.
Comments on map:
Bottom centre is a list of wards with the number of houses and inhabitants in each.
Scale:
1:4752
Map-maker:
John Snape [sv], P. Begbie [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
64.0 x 67.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
clergy residences, partly
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
watermills
Sanitary and utility information:
conduits, misc: Named springs; reference has note of supply to one conduit from a spring, which in turn supplies other conduits.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, misc: Bishops Registry, Chapter House, Vicars Hall.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
town gates: 'Bar gates'.
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
cross
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, orchards: ['Cherry Orchard'].
Public/administrative boundaries:
misc: Close.
Known copies of map:
BLML K.Top.38.44, BOL Gough Maps Staffordshire 12, C17 a.9 [1781]; Lichfield RO (photo, ex Wm Salt); Birmingham Central Lib Norton 777 (2678); BOL G.A.Staffs c20/L6 [1970: Lichfield maps, Local History source book L.6: Staffs CC Edcn Dept].
Industry:
rope walk, textiles: [Tenters, Tanyard].
Railways:
routes
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
museums, libraries/newsrooms
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Elements surrounding title: helmet with plumes, arms of bishopric, standard with shield with vignette of cathedral thereon, broken multiple columns, ruined church in background, gauntlet, vegetation, book open at title page, 'A Century of Sermons by John Hackett DD Bp. of Lichfield and Coventry' [following publisher's imprint is impressionistic rather than legible].
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top right: view of cathedral.
Commons:
shown
Symbolic elements:
Helmet with plumes, arms of bishopric, standard with shield with vignette of cathedral thereon, broken multiple columns, ruined church, gauntlet, vegetation, book: in title.
Arms and heraldry:
ecclesiastical
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
pounds/pinfolds: [Pinfolds].
Walls, embankments, etc:
Dumble or Dry Ditch [north side of cathedral].
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
shown: Inns: with special lighter stipple to emphasise them.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1882
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1900
1:2500
1:10,560
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