Yorks-Bedale-1786 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20125

Map Date:

1786

Repository reference:

North Yorkshire RO ZMI [MIC 1496/24-50: Bedale is at /37]

Historic county:

Yorks, North Riding

Town name:

Bedale

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE266883

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 2484

Map title:

'A plan of the townships of ... Bedale ... Langthorne ... and Brompton ... Survey'd for the Rev. Charles Clarke Rector, by Alexr. Calvert Maker Swaledale 1786.'

Comments on map:

Some of the paper, including parts of the title, has rotted away. Town is ribbony, and acreages and numbers (cadaster elsewhere) are only provided for Rev Mr Clarke's lands. Dimensions from North Yorkshire RO catalogue.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

Alexr. Calvert, Swaledale [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

183 x 145

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Known copies of map:

North Riding RO ZMI MIC 1496/24-50; Hull Uni Lib DDCA 14/14, DDCA 14/15 [1786: unclear if include town].

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Largely absent in town].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1853-4

1:10,560

1890-1

1:10,560