Sussex-Brighton-1778
CBTM:
22699
Map Date:
? 1778
Repository reference:
Ashmolean Museum, Sutherland Collection, C.III, 331.
Historic county:
Sussex
Town name:
Brighton
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ312043
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 2806
Map title:
'Brighthelmstone. in 1778.'
Comments on map:
Apparently lithographed: a mysterious, not to say dubious, item in a collection assembled into Grangerised volumes before 1837. Probably derived from Exeter 22421.
Scale:
1:6336*
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
20.5 x 15.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively, (pictorial): Only parish church is pictorial.
Public buildings:
customs
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries: [Battery].
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.III, Part V.
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa, theatres, etc
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative: Title is on rock; reference to buildings on 'scroll'.
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Symbolic elements:
To right of cartouche: man with shrimping-net.
Retail activity:
limited range: [Thomas's Library].
Walls, embankments, etc:
Fences along clifftops.
Ordnance Survey's
1873-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896-7
1:2500
1:10,560
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