Yorks-Beverley-1811
CBTM:
20448
Map Date:
1811
Repository reference:
East Riding RO DDX 372/1
Historic county:
Yorks, East Riding
Town name:
Beverley
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TA038392
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TA 0835
Map title:
'A plan of Beverley, carefully laid down from an accurate survey.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from photocopy. Not a very refined production.
Scale:
1:5280
Map-maker:
David Hick, Master of the Commercial Academy, Beverley [author].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
41 x 54
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
windmills, watermills
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Minster and St Mary's pictorial.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative: County Hall pictorial.
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals: The six 'hospitals' all appear to be almshouses.
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Known copies of map:
East Riding RO DDX 372/1, BC IV/4/4 [photocopy].
Industry:
chemicals, misc: Coal Yards.
Gardens:
shown: [But might possibly be orchards].
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners: [Principal owners, or occupiers].
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Title nearly suffocated by oak-leaves, with sunburst at top; reference is more restrained, with various sorts of leaf, including an olive branch at the bottom, and a sunburst out of a head at the top.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Below main mapped area: Minster and town as seen from Westwood Common: post-mill in foreground.
Symbolic elements:
Sunburst out of head, olive branch: in reference.
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Weighing Engine.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Dedicee of map:
Rt Worshipful Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Beverley.
Ordnance Survey's
1853
1:1056
1:10,560
1890-1
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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