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Suffolk-Needham Market-1772

CBTM:
22157
Map Date:
1772
Repository reference:
Suffolk RO [Ipswich] HD 480/14 [fol 69].
Historic county:
Suffolk
Town name:
Needham Market
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TM089549
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TM 0660
Map title:
'A map of the town of Needham Market in the county of Suffolk survey'd in 1772 by J. Pennington'.
Comments on map:
Recorded from reissue by Suffolk RO in 1978, which has been substituted for the original in this collection. Evidently manuscript from the appearence of the cartouche.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
J. Pennington [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
34.5 x 43.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised
Mills:
watermills
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Education and academic:
schools
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, orchards
Known copies of map:
East Suffolk RO HD 480/14, p.69 [Fitch collection: surrogate for original]; CUL Maps.bb.19.G.47, East Suffolk RO MC 4/73 [pub by Suffolk RO, 1978]; East Suffolk RO P.409 [photo]; Lowestoft RO Searchroom.
Gardens:
shown
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Rococco with trees to one side.
Relief:
prominent hills
Borders:
decorative
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1883-4
1:2500
1:10,560
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