Sussex-Chichester-1749
CBTM:
18348
Map Date:
1749
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.XLII.6
Historic county:
Sussex
Town name:
Chichester
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SU860048
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SU 8607
Map title:
'The ichnography of Chichester'.
Comments on map:
Inset on county map, 1:190,080, which also includes Lewes [Exeter 20186], and vignettes and verbal descriptions of both towns. [No market cross.]
Scale:
1:6336
Map-maker:
Eman. Bowen, Geographer to His Majesty [author], I. Hinton, Kings Arms, St Pauls Churchyard, London [sold by].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
12.0 x 12.5 [inset only: main map 69.2 x 50.7].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Some buildings shown pictorially, but significance not apparent [but see Butler (1972) for enlightenment].
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial): Pictorial cathedral, pictograms elsewhere.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Defence and military:
town gates, town walls, (pictorial)
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
BOL (E)C17:58 (16)[1749, Hinton]; CUL Atlas.1.75.1,47 [1753]; West Sussex RO, PM 113 [1756: Tinney]; BOL Dep.a.19 [1760: Tinney]; [1765: Sayer]; BOL (E)C17:58(17) [1775]; [1777: Sayer]; West Sussex RO PM 44 [1785: Sayer]; [1767/94?: Wilkinson etc]; BLML K.Top XLII.6; BOL (E)C17:58(1) [1787]; [1972: included in David J. Butler, The town plans of Chichester 1595-1898, Chichester: West Sussex CC, 1972].
Antiquities:
Friery.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
At bottom of main map: North prospect.
Ordnance Survey's
1874
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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