Warwickshire-Stratford upon Avon-1769 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20919

Map Date:

? 1769

Repository reference:

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust ER 1/48/22

Historic county:

Warwickshire

Town name:

Stratford upon Avon

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP200548

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 2056

Map title:

'Plan of Stratford on Avon.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from touched-up photographic copy. Presumably produced for those attending the Shakespeare bicentenery celebrations.

Scale:

1:6336

Map-maker:

Samuel Winter [sv].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

20.0 x 19.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

cross: [Market Cross: four dots].

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust ER 1/48/22.

Antiquities:

New Place, House where Shakespeare was born.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial boats in river.

Ordnance Survey's

1887

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560