Sussex-Steyning-1792 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22450

Map Date:

1792

Repository reference:

West Sussex RO Add. MS 37,525

Historic county:

Sussex

Town name:

Steyning

Map type:

Miscellaneous

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ178112

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 1911

Map title:

'A map of the borough & manor of Steyning; as traced in 1792.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from elderly-looking photo, with manuscript note at bottom that was used in election petition in 1792. 'To face page 251', bottom right: a traced version of this appears f.p.1 in Frank Duke and Ernest W. Cox, In and around Steyning [privately published, June 1954: copy on West Sussex RO shelves], which notes at the bottom: 'Copy of plan of Steyning on page 251 of Fraser's ''Election Petition Proceedings'', 1793 in Worthing Public Library, Sussex Reference Room, Press no 5324'.

Scale:

1:4500*

Map-maker:

S.F. [author].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

14.7 x 18.7

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

other: '* marks the situation of certain of the old Boro' houses.'

Colouring:

uncertain: Seem to be borough boundary and certian other things not readily apparent.

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted.: Numbered buildings plus a few other buildings only.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Known copies of map:

West Sussex RO Add MS 37,525.

Industry:

textiles

Waterbodies:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1872-5

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560