Surrey-Richmond-1771 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18649

Map Date:

1771

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/699

Historic county:

Surrey

Town name:

Richmond

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ179748

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 2171

Map title:

'Plan of the royal manor of Richmond otherwise West Sheen in the county of Surrey taken under the direction of Peter Burrell Esqre. His Majesty's Surveyor General in the year 1771 by Thomas Richardson in York Street Cavendish Square London.'

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

Thomas Richardson, York St, Cavendish Sq, London [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

126.0 x 177.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, decorative: But only in top two-fifths of map, around Kew.

Buildings:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Education and academic:

schools

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/297, TNA [PRO] MR 1/699.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Commons:

shown: [Greens].

Symbolic elements:

Bird of paradise above cartouche; classical ruins to left.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1866

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1891-4

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560