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Worcestershire-Worcester-1764

CBTM:
23156
Map Date:
[1764]
Repository reference:
BL 290.f.37
Historic county:
Worcestershire
Town name:
Worcester
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SO851547
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SO 8853
Map title:
'A plan of the city of Worcester, with references.'
Comments on map:
F.p. 237 of Valentine Green, A survey of Worcester, Worcester: Gamidge, 1764. The 'references' are in the text on pp 237-9: letters used for cathedral and precincts, numbers for everything else, including street names: informative, provided that map and letterpress are kept together.
Scale:
1:7920*
Map-maker:
V. Green [dr], R. Hancock [eng], S. Gamidge, Prior's Head, Worcester [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
18.8 x 15.5 [map: plate 19.8 x 16.3].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
clergy residences
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Discreet cross-hatching for public, etc, buildings.
Turnpikes:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
quays
Sanitary and utility information:
water works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Public/administrative boundaries:
misc, boundary markers: City; ['Liberty-post'].
Known copies of map:
BL 290.f.37, BL G.15978, BOL Gough Worcs 2, CUL S474.d.76.1.
Industry:
furniture/pottery
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa
Antiquities:
Fort Royal; Site of Battle of Worcester; monastic sites, town ditch.
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners: [Meadows belonging to Dean and Chapter].
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative: Rococco; seem to be Hop-poles to right.
Symbolic elements:
Hop-poles: to right of cartouche.
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Machine for weighing Carriages.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial sailing vessels in river and at quay.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal: [Bottom right: with rococco surround].
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
generalised/schematic
Ordnance Survey's
1886
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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