Wiltshire-Downton-1740 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23172

Map Date:

? 1740

Repository reference:

Wiltshire RO 1946/H.23

Historic county:

Wiltshire

Town name:

Downton

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SU182214

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 1724

Map title:

'A plan of the borough of Downton'.

Comments on map:

Does not cover the area in the vicinity of the church on the east. Possibly earlier than Exeter 23174.

Scale:

1:1584*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

70.7 x 49.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, owners: Buildings within estate are carmine, others are hatched.

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

shown

Known copies of map:

Wiltshire RO 1946/H.23.

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary for location purposes

Map material:

parchment

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1874-5

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560