Wiltshire-Salisbury-1781 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19692

Map Date:

20.9.1781

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.43.38

Historic county:

Wiltshire

Town name:

Salisbury

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU155298

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 1433

Map title:

'A plan of the city of Salisbury with the adjacent close.'

Comments on map:

More clean-cut than Exeter 19691. Note in reference: 'Water runs thro' almost every Street, but a representation of it is omitted to preserve the Beauty of the Plan.'

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

B. Donn [sv], J. Cheevers [eng], Edward Easton, Bookseller, Salisbury [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

46.0 x 42.0

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

Reference system, water, other: Reference system; 'dart' in river; water not running cartographically through streets.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

shown

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively, misc: Cathedral cloisters.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

gallows, jails/reformatories, (pictorial): [Gallows unoccupied].

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls: Fragmentary.

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, infirmaries, mental

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish, misc: 'Chequers' named.

Known copies of map:

BLML K.Top.43(38), BOL Gough Maps Wiltshire 6 & 7 [1781]; Wiltshire RO G.23/1/163 PC [1820: pb James Easton].

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Antiquities:

Friery.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Reference system:

squaring: 1-furlong.

Crosses:

MN

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1878

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560