Sussex-Horsham-1770 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22468

Map Date:

1770

Repository reference:

Horsham Museum MS 2802

Historic county:

Sussex

Town name:

Horsham

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ173306

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 1631

Map title:

'A plan of the houses and land in the borough of Horsham... belonging to the Rt Honble Chst. Irwin. Surveyed A.D. 1770...'

Comments on map:

Irwin property plus landmarks only: not very useful-seeming.

Scale:

1:792

Map-maker:

A. Mickle [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

96.0 x 74.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

ownership

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, land-use, owners, decorative

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial): East end: in detail.

Markets and exchanges:

markets, (pictorial): [Careful depiction].

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

Horsham Museum MS 2802.

Gardens:

shown

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary for location purposes

Waterbodies:

shown

Map material:

parchment

Estate boundary ownership:

shown

Walls, embankments, etc:

Both hedges and walls seem to be indicated.

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete

Ordnance Survey's

1874-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1895-6

1:2500

1:10,560