Suffolk-Long Melford-1820 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22740

Map Date:

1820

Repository reference:

West Suffolk RO M.540

Historic county:

Suffolk

Town name:

Long Melford

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL865460

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 8946

Map title:

'A map of the parish of Melford, Suff. With numerical references to the book containing the survey of the same. 1820.'

Comments on map:

Map has various annotations, including renumbering in black and cancelling of detail in red, suggesting revision, possibly for the tithe map [Exeter 08421], and indeed there is a Tithe Commission stamp, 5 Dec 1839, top left. No 1820 reference available: this might be a rating map.

Scale:

1:7920

Map-maker:

Isaac Johnson, Surveyor, Woodbridge, Suff. [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

102 x 148

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, decorative

Road names:

important roads only

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

West Suffolk RO M.540.

Industry:

paper/print

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds

Geodetic notes:

Notes: lower left, that boundary was laid down following perambulation by 'the principal inhabitants' on 24 and 25 February 1820, and is 21 miles 1 furlong 10 rods; bottom right, of latitude (52.3.45 N) and longitude (0.44.20 E).

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1884-5

1:2500

1:10,560