Suffolk-Bury St Edmunds-1834 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18892

Map Date:

1834

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] T72/12

Historic county:

Suffolk

Town name:

Bury St Edmunds

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL853642

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 8866

Map title:

'Plan of the Borough of Bury St Edmunds, in the county of Suffolk. R. Payne, Surveyor. 1834.'

Comments on map:

An impressive example of the 1820s-30s generation of town maps: engraving is first class, though the engraver isn't mentioned. The apparently exhaustive treatment of antiquities and almshouses contrasts with the rather exiguous indications of how the inhabitants might earn a living. Includes insets, top left, of Botanic Gardens and Abbey Grounds, 1:2376, and, bottom right, of the abbey church (with dimensions in feet), about 1:1600. Lack of house-names is rather surprising: or did the mean so-and-so's refuse to subscribe?

Scale:

1:3960

Map-maker:

R. Payne [sv], [S. Hall [eng]].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

61.5 x 69.5

Number of parts:

3

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

windmills, (symbol): Both post and tower mills.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Some by reference: do we infer some sort of joke by 1 in the reference being the gas works, 2 the Quaker meeting and 3 the grammar school??

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals, infirmaries, pest houses

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

cross

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 3.aa.29; CUL Maps.FR.x.12; TNA [PRO] T72/12; West Suffolk RO Q/CM1, also M.532 ('see also survey by R.Payne 1833 E8/2/1(4) and Map 586/2'); East Suffolk RO MC 4/47, 21583; CUL Maps.bb.999.01.1-4 [photo of West Suffolk RO 586/2].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, lime/cement

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Miscellaneous:

Churches, college and some hospitals named in gothic.

Antiquities:

Saxon Tower, Abbey Gate, Old Vineyard of the Abbey. St Saviours Hospital has a note appended that Humphrey of Gloucester was murdered here in 1446.

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary for location purposes

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

misc: Subscription Rooms.

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom left: east front of abbey gate; top right: 'The Saxon Tower' [really Norman].

Monuments:

obelisks, (pictorial): [In Chequer Square].

Symbolic elements:

Maces: two crossed ones, between title and mapmaker.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Arms and heraldry:

municipal: [Above title].

Miscellaneous religious group:

Mausoleum in one churchyard.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560