Sussex-Hurstpierpoint-1841 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22447

Map Date:

1841

Repository reference:

West Sussex RO Add. MS 17,683

Historic county:

Sussex

Town name:

Hurstpierpoint

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ280165

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3120

Map title:

'Plan of the village of Hurstpierpoint in the county of Sussex. 1841.'

Comments on map:

Distinctly odd: just the village. Fields numbered: no reference to hand.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

James Fisher, Surveyor, Hurst [? sv], G.F. Bragg, 231 Strand [lith], C. Chabot, Skinner St, Snow Hill [pr], W.H. Mason, Repository of Arts, Brighton [pb].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

115.0 x 49.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use: Evidently grass and 'rough pasture'.

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills: [Inferred from circle in area 8].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: No infill, thickened casing.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

[BLML Maps 137.b.9(25) is definitely wrong], West Sussex RO Add MS 17,683, Add MS 3423A-BOX.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground: Similar to woods.

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary for location purposes

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom left: 'N.W. View of Hurstpierpoint Church.'

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Surveyor's name on stiff 'banner' round direction pointer.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1874

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560