Sussex-Steyning-1793 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22390

Map Date:

1.10.1793

Repository reference:

CUL Maps.88.79.1

Historic county:

Sussex

Town name:

Steyning

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ178112

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 1911

Map title:

'An ichnographical plan of Steyning in Sussex, laid down from an actual survey taken in Feby. 1791.'

Comments on map:

Unclear who the mapmaker might be.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

I. Edwards [eng, pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

28.0 x 22.0 [map: plate 29.0 x 22.5].

Number of parts:

1

Building names:

clergy residences, important buildings only

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial): Named.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

BOL C17:70 Steyning (1), CUL Maps.88.79.1 [1790]; West Sussex RO PM 146 [1817: J. Edwards, pb 2:17].

Gardens:

shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Title is on rock, with trees behind.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Walls, embankments, etc:

Pictorial fence.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

misc: Rickyard with haystacks.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1872-5

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560