Warwickshire-Coleshill-1783 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20929

Map Date:

1783

Repository reference:

Birmingham Archives 604594 [M2 rolled plans] [original], Warwickshire RO Z.115(V) [photo]

Historic county:

Warwickshire

Town name:

Coleshill

Map type:

Parish

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP200890

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 1989

Map title:

'A plan of the parish of Coleshill in the county of Warwick.'

Comments on map:

Fields numbered: reference elsewhere. As it is of the whole parish and indicates owners, it might possibly be for rating. Table of owners, bottom left.

Scale:

1:6336

Map-maker:

John Snape [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

101 x 109

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

owners

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Birmingham Archives 604594 [M2 rolled plans] [original], Warwickshire RO Z.115(V) [photo].

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground: [Deer park].

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: With title on slab, propped on urn, with vignette of Coleshill church and town in background.

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Top right: gabled 16th or 17th century house: evidently Coleshill Park.

Symbolic elements:

Slab, urn, church: title on slab, propped on urn, with Coleshill church and town in background.

Reference system:

squaring: 30-chain.

Arms and heraldry:

uncertain: In title: ? Lord Digby: the principal owner.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1886

1:2500

1:10,560