Yorks-Kingston upon Hull-1786 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19384

Map Date:

1786

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] Library

Historic county:

Yorks, East Riding

Town name:

Kingston upon Hull

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TA099286

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TA 0835

Map title:

'A plan of the town & harbour of Kingston upon Hull: by A. Bower, 1786.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from Hugh Calvert, A history of Kingston upon Hull, Chichester: Phillimore, 1978, p.79. The more careful mapping of ship yards, etc, than of buildings suggests more a marine-oriented than a street-map.

Scale:

1:3960

Map-maker:

A. Bower [author].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

35.2 x 22.0

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, misc: Dock Company's ground and proposed extensions, Dock Office.

Sanitary and utility information:

water works

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

misc: Site for Custom House.

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries: [Citadel, Block House].

Welfare and charitable:

misc: Trinity House, Charity Hall.

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 5988(1), BOL (E)C17(451) [39], CUL Maps.17.G.29, Hull City Archives, Hull Library, Yorks Archl Soc 95.C.2, MS.677, RGS Eng & Wales S/S 101; TNA [PRO] Library [in Hugh Calvert, A history of Kingston upon Hull, Chichester: Phillimore, 1978, 79].

Industry:

ship yards

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Cannon, shot, anchor, casks, bales below title.

Symbolic elements:

Cannon, shot, anchor, casks, bales: below title.

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Norman's Shop.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

One pictorial ship in Humber.

Ordnance Survey's

1853

1:1056

1:10,560

1888-90

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560