Suffolk-Bury St Edmunds-1833 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

17415

Map Date:

1833

Repository reference:

West Suffolk RO 586/2

Historic county:

Suffolk

Town name:

Bury St Edmunds

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL853642

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 8866

Comments on map:

St Mary and St James, Bury St Edmunds. Purpose unclear: there is a Reference to exchanges between the Feoffees of the Guildhall and Thos Cocksedge, Esq, which could be a later addition. Built-up parts not mapped in detail: a note says premises in the town are numbered if they contain a road, but not if they don't. Could derive from enclosure map [Exeter 1738].

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

Richard Payne [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

97 x 120

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, water, boundaries

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

shown: Listed in reference.

Welfare and charitable:

pest houses

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish, boundary markers

Known copies of map:

West Suffolk RO 586/2 [photo].

Parkland:

botanic gardens, private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Borders:

decorative

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Arms and heraldry:

uncertain: In north pointer.

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560