Surrey-Wimbledon-1776 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22764

Map Date:

1776

Repository reference:

BOL Gough Maps Surrey 13

Historic county:

Surrey

Town name:

Wimbledon

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ240710

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 2075

Map title:

'Sketch of the town of Wimbledon, with the lands adjoining belonging to the right Honble. John Earl Spencer Viscount Althorp &c. &c. &c. 1776'.

Comments on map:

Most of the 'town' would appear not to be in his Lordship's ownership.

Scale:

1:792*

Map-maker:

F. AE. Assiotti [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

49.7 x 41.2

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

ownership: Boundary of Spencer property.

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, owners, decorative

Buildings:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

police: 'Watch House'.

Penal:

stocks, (pictorial)

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BOL Gough Maps Surrey 13.

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown, holdings/occupiers: [Including occupations of tradesmen; with notes of leasehold and freehold].

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: [With 'Dieu defende le droit'].

Commons:

shown

Arms and heraldry:

principal landowner.: [Spencer: above title].

Retail activity:

shown generally: Occupations of tradesmen given for houses: questionable how far these are 'retail outlets'.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown: With detached pictorial inn-signs in road.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1869

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560