Warwickshire-Coventry-1750
CBTM:
18323
Map Date:
29.3.1750
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] MPE 1/392
Historic county:
Warwickshire
Town name:
Coventry
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SP335790
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SP 3480
Map title:
'A Plan of the City of Coventry Surveyed in MDCCXLVIII & IX by Samuel Bradford and Engraved by Thos Jeffreys, Geographer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales'.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
Samuel Bradford [sv], Thomas Jeffreys [eng, pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
75.2 x 52.7
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
boundaries
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Mills:
watermills: One is identified as 'The Corn Mill'.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
town gates, town walls
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
race courses, sports grounds: [Race course indicated by Winning Post].
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, orchards
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish, Ward
Known copies of map:
BLML K.Top.42.83, BOL Gough Maps Warwickshire 9, 10, CUL Maps.aa.89.75.1, TNA [PRO] MPH 1/361 (WO 78/1453); Coventry Archives 895/3, 998/5; Coventry Library 1691/25/2, Warwickshire RO M.B.Cov 1748-9 [reproduction].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, textiles: [Numerous tenters, Skin Yard].
Gardens:
shown
Antiquities:
White Fryers, Grey Friars, Old Windmill Hill, named moat.
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative: Five all told, round title, city arms, description of city, scale and dedication.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top left: 'A view of the Cross', with abundant staffage.
Relief:
prominent hills
Borders:
decorative
Symbolic elements:
City arms, top centre: the elephant looks rather porcine, so perhaps the artist hadn't seen that many elephants. Crown, mace, sword, rolls of paper: around dedication cartouche, bottom centre. What seem to be the then Union flags are flying from the pinnacles of the town cross in the 'vignette'.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Crosses:
cross, (pictorial): [The Cross: cf vignette].
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Dedicee of map:
Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and Common Council of Coventry.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1888-9
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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