Surrey-Kingston upon Thames-1813 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21284

Map Date:

1.6.1813

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.40.15.3.11.TAB

Historic county:

Surrey

Town name:

Kingston upon Thames

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ180690

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 2075

Map title:

'Plan of the town and parish of Kingston upon Thames by T. Hornor, Land Surveyor, Pictural and Descriptive Planner of Estates &c.'

Comments on map:

Town scale is graduated in yards, but seems intended as 1:2376; parish is mapped at about 1:40,000, graduated in chains. Detail of mapping on south-east side of town is obscured by dramatic 'shadow' effect: the whole thing is more striking in an 'artistic' than in a planimetric way. Pickett engraved the plan & writing.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

T. Hornor [sv, pb], Pickett, Bridgwater Square [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

51.2 x 71.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

roads, water, land-use: Hand-coloured.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML K.40.15.3.11.Tab.

Industry:

food/drink, textiles

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Decorative cartouches:

pictorial 'realistic': Bottom centre: two men mark out the scale of the town map on a baulk of wood: axe in background.

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Centre: The Market Place taken from near the Post Office [the post office is not shown on the map]. Bottom right: distant view 'From the Hill'.

Symbolic elements:

Top right: crowned female figure on clouds with spear across lap and two putti.

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

tithe barns

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown: [Numerous].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1865-6

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-5

1:2500

1:10,560