Wiltshire-Melksham-1836 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

16105

Map Date:

1836

Repository reference:

Wiltshire RO 2065/40l

Historic county:

Wiltshire

Town name:

Melksham

Map type:

Parish

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST903838

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 9361

Comments on map:

Surveyed by Lucas in 1835-6. Town centre shown as stipple, unnumbered, with some buildings; unlike Exeter 16106, this does not suggest gardens. Book of reference at 2065/40 ('in box'), where it is described as 'A Terrier and Admeasurement of the Parish of Melksham Wilts as surveyed by George Oakley Lucas by Order of the Inhabitants in Vestry assembled in the years 1835-6. ...' Columns: No. on Plan; Tithing; Description; Stock [Arable, Pasture, etc]; Quantity; Annual Value; Tithes; Remarks. Proprietors and Occupiers written across the page, without separate column. At the end is a reference to 'Town Plan', of which a printed version is described at Exeter 16107.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

George Oakley Lucas [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

160 x 156

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, boundaries

Road names:

fragmentary: One only.

Buildings:

inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished

Canals:

shown

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

tithing

Known copies of map:

Wiltshire RO 2065/40L; Book of reference at 2065/40 ('in box').

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Map material:

parchment

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1884-5

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560