Surrey-Woking-1719 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21345

Map Date:

1719

Repository reference:

Surrey RO G.97/5/63/1

Historic county:

Surrey

Town name:

Woking

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ008588

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 0559

Map title:

'A plan of the royal manour of Woking... actually surveyed & delineated by Iohn Remnant of Guldeford 1719'.

Comments on map:

Reference at G.97/5/63/2. Very much a display map.

Scale:

1:6336

Map-maker:

John Remnant, Guldeford [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

160 x 82

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

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

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

tithing

Known copies of map:

Surrey RO G97/5/63/1 [map], G97/5/63/2 [reference].

Miscellaneous:

Decidedly colourful and decorative.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown: [In title].

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Flowery decoration round title: scale seems to be on top of a copper-coloured altar. Dividers above scale. The 'decoration' seems to be rather better penned and finished than the map proper.

Commons:

shown

Borders:

latitude & longitude shown: Also quarter-compass-rose in each corner.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Multi-colour compass rose.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated

Ordnance Survey's

1869-70

1:2500

1:10,560

1894-5

1:2500

1:10,560