Surrey-Richmond-1771 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23355

Map Date:

1771

Repository reference:

RGS MR England & Wales S.201 [514048]

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 2075

Map title:

'Plan 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; in the year 1771...'.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from photograph by British Museum: received by RGS 15 May 1950. Fields numbered: no cadastre available.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

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

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

190 x 140

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

general legend

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, land-use, decorative: Buildings coloured according to whether freehold (black), leasehold (orange), or copyhold (red).

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

conduits, misc: [One conduit]; Pumps.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

manor, boundary markers: [Boundary Tree].

Known copies of map:

RGS Eng & Wales S.201 [photo of BL copy] [? as TNA [PRO] MR 1/699].

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [Presumably non-Royal owners].

Waterbodies:

shown, misc: 'Late the Town Pond' at road junction.

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Rococco: title has classical ruins on either side, across lake to left and behind felled trees to right, with pyramid in background.

Relief:

prominent hills

Commons:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Hermitage.

Ferries:

ferry

Map material:

parchment

Garden and park buildings:

misc: Menagerie.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated

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