Wiltshire-Devizes-1759
CBTM:
19690
Map Date:
1759
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.43.33
Historic county:
Wiltshire
Town name:
Devizes
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SU004614
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
ST 9857
Map title:
'An accurate plan of the ancient borough of Devizes with the gardens & nurseries adjact surveyed & delineated by Edward Dore Price 6s' [sic].
Comments on map:
Map is flanked by historical notes, finishing with the 'State of ye Borough in 1759'.
Scale:
1:1584
Map-maker:
Edward Dore [sv, dr], W. Burrough [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
102.5 x 73.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial): Large.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, misc: Measuring House.
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
landmark tree, orchards: [Cross Tree: pictorial].
Public/administrative boundaries:
Parish
Known copies of map:
BLML K.Top.43.33, Wiltshire RO Open Access Searchroom H/C [1759]; BOL G.A.Wilts 4o 185 [1985: E.Bradby, The Book of Devizes, Barracuda Books].
Industry:
textiles: Inferred from what seem to be pictorial tenters.
Gardens:
shown
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
At top of map is view of town from east; flanked by views of the three churches, the old and new halls, and the town arms.
Symbolic elements:
Dividers: large, above scale.
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Fences, hedges and some outlying gates shown pictorially, as, apparently, are arable and grass.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1884
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1899
1:2500
1:10,560
You can download the pdf version of this map
here