Sussex-Rye-1771
CBTM:
21316
Map Date:
1771
Repository reference:
East Sussex RO add MS 4667
Historic county:
Sussex
Town name:
Rye
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ922203
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 9119
Map title:
'An accurate survey of the ancient town of Rye in the county of Sussex and lands belonging to the Corporation of Rye.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from reduced photograph of original in Rye Museum. Surveyed by order of the mayor, justices and freemen.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
Tho. Hogben [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
95 x 90
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Known copies of map:
East Sussex RO Add MS 4667 (photo of original in Rye Museum); BOL G.A. Sussex 4o 288 [1982: in G.S. Bagley, The Book of Rue, Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1982].
Gardens:
shown
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners: [Some outlying ones].
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative: Title and a 'Note' [not legible on photo], bottom centreish.
Map material:
parchment
Ordnance Survey's
1871-2
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1897
1:2500
1:10,560
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