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Sussex-Brighton-1779

CBTM:
18472
Map Date:
1.6.1779
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.XLII.15
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'.
Comments on map:
An atytpical example of a later 18th century town map, both in decoration and in content. Engraving is of extremely good quality.
Scale:
1:3168
Map-maker:
Yeakell & Gardner [sv], Whitchurch, Shopwyck, Chichester [eng], Richd Thomas, Bookseller, Brighthelmstone [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
34.3 x 37.5 [overall: mapped area 30.2 x 25.3].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
customs
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries: [Battery].
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
BLML K.Top. 42.15, BOL C17 a.9, Gough Maps Sussex 13, Brighton Public Library, CUL Maps.bb.17.G.125 [1779]; Brighton Library [1779: photo]; CUL Maps.bb.18.G.95 [1820: lith Arthur Wallis]; BLML Maps 5425(11) [1901 facsimile]; BOL (E)C17:58 (101) [1779/1970: Harry Margary, 250 years of Sussex maps]; [1985: Reduced version in Valerie Scott and Hughy Barty-King, Sussex, London: Quiller Press, 1985].
River and foreshore features:
foreshore, foreshore material specified: [Annotated 'A very fine Sand dry at Low Water'].
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms, baths/spa
Decorative cartouches:
pictorial 'realistic': 'References' to churches and public buildings on rock, apparently standing on one side of a river mouth, with three adults and two children in attendance, and a two-masted sailing boat in the background.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Below map: Brighton and beach from sea.
Commons:
shown
Borders:
decorative: Musical instruments to left and right, vegetation at corners and bottom.
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Ordnance Survey's
1873-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896-7
1:2500
1:10,560
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