Sussex-Chichester-1764 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18349

Map Date:

[1764]

Repository reference:

RGS 9.A.38.

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:

'Plan of the city of Chichester'.

Comments on map:

Plate 10 in A collection of Plans of the Principal Cities of Great Britain and Ireland, London: A. Dury, 1764. [This volume also includes sketchy maps of the coasts of Britain and Ireland, Wren's plan for rebuilding City in 1666, London & Westminster (c.1:44,500, explicitly dated 1764), Aberdeen, (c.1:51,088), Edinburgh, Dublin, Cork, and the Isle of Wight.] [No market cross shown].

Scale:

1:6732

Map-maker:

A. Dury [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.2 x 11.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Some hatched buildings which are not described, but correspond with similar buildings on Bowen [Exeter 18347].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: Minster not named.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

town gates, town walls

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BOL C15 f.1, Gough Maps 143, CUL Atlas.7.76.2, RGS 9.A.38 [1764]; [1972: included in David J. Butler, The town plans of Chichester 1595-1898, Chichester: West Sussex CC, 1972].

Gardens:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1874

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560