Surrey-Richmond-1771 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

12339

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

Comments on map:

'Royal Manor' of Richmond or West Sheen: associated award is at TNA [PRO] LRRO 1/401.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

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

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

127 x 180

Number of parts:

2

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme

Buildings:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

magazines/arsenals

Education and academic:

schools, observatories

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

boundary markers

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/699.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Bird, bridge, temple, trees, bell (?) and arrows, coloured, surround title.

Commons:

shown

Symbolic elements:

Bird, bridge, temple, trees, bell(?) and arrow decorate cartouche.

Map material:

parchment

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