Warwickshire-Warwick-1820 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20920

Map Date:

? 1820

Repository reference:

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust ER 1/71/12

Historic county:

Warwickshire

Town name:

Warwick

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP282649

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 3169

Map title:

'Plan of Warwick.'

Comments on map:

[fol.15] in a volume noted on first folio as 'part of the collections of the late Captain James Saunders of Stratford on Avon': Shakespeare Birthplace Trust dates it circa 1820, which is sensible. (Most of the book is minature ink drawings of churches with yellowy wash ground.) Scale is in chains.

Scale:

1:14,400

Map-maker:

[Captain James Saunders of Stratford on Avon [dr]].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.7 x 15.2

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use: Garden-herringbone.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, J, l

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses: With Grand Stand.

Known copies of map:

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust ER 1/71/12.

Gardens:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1887

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560