Yorks-Ripon-1800 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20148

Map Date:

1800

Repository reference:

North Yorkshire RO DC/RIC [MIC 1540/517-533]

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

Ripon

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE314711

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 3270

Map title:

'A plan of the average lands &c within Ripon, Bondgate and Littlethorpe in the county of York made in 1800 by John Humphries of Ripon'.

Comments on map:

Dimensions from North Yorkshire RO list, where scale is quoted as about 4.5 chains: no scale available on the film. All plots numbered, with acreages: not much text.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

John Humphries, Ripon [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

102 x 86

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Markets and exchanges:

cross, markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

NRRO DC/RIC [MIC 1540/517: enlargement of town at DN 78].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Other land-uses & land-cover:

misc: Grassland apparently shown.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1853

1:1056

1:10,560

1890-91

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560