Sussex-Chichester-1812 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18351

Map Date:

4.1812

Repository reference:

[Private collection]

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, from an actual survey taken April 1812. George Loader, surveyor.'

Comments on map:

Plate 1 of Chichester section in James Dallaway, A history of the Western Division of the county of Sussex, I (1815).

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

George Loader [sv], Neele, Strand [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

22.0 x 23.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

town gates, town walls

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards: Orchards and gardens very similar: the same tree-bush symbol may be intended to serve for both.

Known copies of map:

BL 656.h.4, CUL Ll.11.10, TNA [PRO] T72/8, T72/12, RGS Eng & Wales S/S 3, West Sussex RO PM 154, PM 219; RRO colln [1972] [original]; [1972: included in David J. Butler, The town plans of Chichester 1595-1898, Chichester: West Sussex CC, 1972]; BOL G1/ C16.6 [1992: in Ashley Baynton-Williams, Town and city maps of the British Isles 1800-1855, London: Studio Editions, 1992].

Gardens:

shown: Similar to orchards, q.v.

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Top left: cathedral and bell-tower from north-east.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1874

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560