Surrey-Reigate-1785 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21337

Map Date:

? 1785

Repository reference:

Surrey RO 4348/2/39/2

Historic county:

Surrey

Town name:

Reigate

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ253502

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 2749

Comments on map:

Surrey RO lists say is based on the 1785 map [Exeter 21336], but it covers a larger area, including the castle. A mix of strict planimentry with perspective. Lack of title is striking: is it unfinished? Buildings numbered, cf Exeter 21336: no reference to hand.

Scale:

1:2376*

Map-maker:

Thos Foot [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

50.7 x 32.3

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences, important buildings only

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: The parish church is only shown pictorially.

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

Surrey RO 4348/2/39/2 [original]; CUL Maps.c.87.94.3 [book at T540.c.10.5] [Reigate town in 1786, 31 x 21 cm: in W. Hooper, Reigate, its story through the ages, 1945: based on Foot].

Gardens:

shown: [Limited areas only; also White Hart Garden].

Miscellaneous:

Cross Way (with cross), Wall Field [lines of pecks], Repentance [?!].

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground: [Reigate Priory: shown pictorially].

Antiquities:

Castle.

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Above castle: cross-sections of passage and of 'the Great Room'; down right: ? rectory; unidentified; parish church, from north-east and west.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated: [Around castle].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1870

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560