Surrey-Richmond-1771 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18654

Map Date:

1771

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/2

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 in several parts of the royal manor of Richmond, otherwise West Sheen in the county of Surrey taken under the direction of Peter Burrell Esqr. his Majesty's Surveyor General. By Thomas Richardson 1771.'

Comments on map:

Reference, plus plans bound in volume: original for Exeter 18649, and much clearer to read. Record details apply to sheets 1-4 [of 7] only.

Scale:

1:1188

Map-maker:

Thomas Richardson [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

61.0 x 55.5, 56.3 x 62.8, 57.0 x 59.8, 68.6 x 59.7

Number of parts:

4

Colouring:

Buildings, water, uncertain: Apparently related to ownership: buildings are carmine, orange and green.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

landmark tree: [Love Tree: pictorial].

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MP 1/22 [volume of 7 plans of town and park].

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Waterbodies:

shown

Commons:

shown

Map material:

parchment

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Mile Stone [pictorial].

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete

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