Suffolk-Sudbury-1714 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22746

Map Date:

1.12.1714

Repository reference:

West Suffolk RO EE 501/6/159

Historic county:

Suffolk

Town name:

Sudbury

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TL871423

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 8946

Comments on map:

Note on contents of commons, upper left. More a birds' eye view than a scale-map, with the scale left-right about 1.5 times that bottom-top. No text on map: everything numbered, with reference at bottom. Map is perhaps not quite complete: no 'road-rut' effect in roads on right-hand sheet.

Scale:

1:1980*

Map-maker:

Cor [?] Brewer [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

99.5 x 53.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water, land-use, decorative

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial: The larger ones look 'realistic'.

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Pump: pictorial.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, incomplete Anglican/established only, (pictorial): One with red weathercock.

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

West Suffolk RO EE 501/6/159.

Gardens:

shown: [Larger ones].

Landowners and occupiers:

notable residents

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Tulip-effect round cartouche.

Commons:

shown

Borders:

decorative

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Map material:

parchment

Ordnance Survey's

1881

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560