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Sussex-Lewes-1799

CBTM:
21302
Map Date:
1799
Repository reference:
East Sussex Record Office Acc.3749
Historic county:
Sussex
Town name:
Lewes
Map type:
boundaries
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ414101
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 4011
Map title:
'...Taken from an actual survey and exhibiting its ancient boundaries...' [torn]
Comments on map:
Perambulated 15 October 1799. Pencil tracing by William Figg, n.d. Lords of borough named below title.
Scale:
1:1584
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
85 x 61
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, building infill omitted
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, boundary markers: [Tree on Boundary Line, Market Post].
Known copies of map:
East Sussex RO Acc.3749.
Industry:
bricks/tiles, textiles, warehousing
River and foreshore features:
misc: Pinwell.
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Antiquities:
Sites of former churches.
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary for location purposes
Waterbodies:
shown, misc: Horse Pond, Mill Pond.
Clubs and societies:
Freemasons
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Weighing Machine.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Map material:
tracing-paper
Ordnance Survey's
1872-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1898
1:2500
1:10,560
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