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Wiltshire-Wilton-1746

CBTM:
19693
Map Date:
1746
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.43.41.a.3
Historic county:
Wiltshire
Town name:
Wilton
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SU096312
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SU 1433
Map title:
'An exact plan of the gardens and park at Wilton the seat of Henry Earl of Pembroke together with the town & also some views of the house and buildings in ye garden. Survey'd and drawn by J. Rocque.'
Comments on map:
The town is definitely an appendage to the park. Five scales: quarter of a mile, chains, perches, feet, yards.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
J. Rocque [sv, ? pb], R. White [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
75.0 x 60.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Known copies of map:
BLML K.Top.43.41.a.3, BOL Gough Maps 33 Fol 13B, BOL Gough Maps 41K, Fol 25, CUL Maps.AA.91.74.1.
Industry:
textiles: ['Carpet Wk House'].
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
misc: May Pole [pictorial: in park].
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Classical heads and figures and ?Brittania in dedication cartouche; putti with drawing board, globe, theodolite, drawing instruments, measuring wheel, obelisk, one putti showing another something on paper, and lion's head round scales; obelisk, urn, classical figures, including near-naked man at bottom reposing with staff and arm round outpouring jar.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Round edges are five views of house and grounds, and plans of the first and second stories [no descriptions].
Relief:
prominent hills
Symbolic elements:
Classical heads, figures, Brittania, putti, drawing board, globe, theodolite, drawing instruments, measuring wheel, obelisk, lion's head, obelisk, urn, staff, outpouring jar: round dedication, scale and title.
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Rowing boats and water fowl in lake, deer in park, horses and various wheeled vehicles going along roads.
Arms and heraldry:
dedicee of map
Dedicee of map:
Rt Hon Henry, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Baron Herbert of Caerdiff, Ross of Kendal, &c, &c.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1875-7
1:2500
1:10,560
1900
1:2500
1:10,560
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