Suffolk-Ipswich-1778 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18964

Map Date:

1778

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.39.21(1), TNA [PRO] T72/13

Historic county:

Suffolk

Town name:

Ipswich

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TM165445

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TM 1646

Map title:

'A map of the town of Ipswich in which the streets, buildings, yards &c are drawn from an actual survey finished 1778 by Joseph Pennington land surveyor.'

Comments on map:

Good for ornament, quite good for building shapes, but distinctly less impressive for description, other than landowners. No border.

Scale:

1:2160

Map-maker:

Joseph Pennington [sv].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

73.3 x 65.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

windmills, watermills: In plan.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BLML K.39.21.1, BOL Gough Maps Suffolk 15, CUL Maps.aa.86.77.1, East Suffolk RO X1/5/2-6, East Suffolk RO MC 3/3+4, East Suffolk RO MC 4/52, East Suffolk RO HA 11/E1/4, TNA [PRO] T72/13.

Industry:

ship yards, rope walk

Gardens:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Symbolic elements:

Lion with ship at top of cartouche, seahorses with town arms at bottom.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1880-1

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560