Worcestershire-Droitwich-1794 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20886

Map Date:

1794

Repository reference:

Worcestershire RO BA 7887

Historic county:

Worcestershire

Town name:

Droitwich

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SO892633

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 9468

Map title:

'Map of the town and borough of Droitwich: drawn according to a perambulation of the same, taken in the year 1786: by J. Hurtle Esq. H. Bray Gent. Baliffs, J. Turner, G. Msutt, Gent. Justices, Jno. Karver Gent. Townclerk, and several principal inhabitants of the said borough.'

Comments on map:

Bottom left are notes of circumference, length and total area, and bottom right is a descriptive note, indicating that this copy was drawn in 1794. Some areas in vicinity of Dodderhill church numbered: meaning uncertain, and no reference to hand. A singular production: good-quality drawing.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

J. Hurtle, H. Bray, J. Turner, G. Msutt, Jno. Karver, and several principal inhabitants [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

133 x 169

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

shown

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

wharfs, misc: Bason, with pictorial sailing barge.

Places of Worship:

incomplete Anglican/established only: Incomplete: Dodderhill is pictorial.

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Parish

Known copies of map:

Worcestershire RO BA 7887 s.497 [original]; Worcestershire RO BA 6293-r925.99:40 [dyeline copy]; Worcestershire RO BA 876 (photo of original in Birm Ref Lib); Worcestershire RO BA 1781 r989.9.16 [also BA 9007]] [Neg photo of original of 1826 transcript in Soc of Antiqs, 1953, 'Prattinton Collection'].

Waterbodies:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

On right: large outline drawing of one of the churches.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560