Yorks-Whitby-1740 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23506

Map Date:

1740

Repository reference:

BL X.809/2012

Historic county:

Yorks, North Riding

Town name:

Whitby

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NZ900110

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NZ 9007

Map title:

'Whitby in 1740.'

Comments on map:

F.p. 556 in George Young, A history of Whitby [1817], Vol II, reissued Whitby: Caedmon, 1976; looks like a redrawing, and nothing like it is found in BL's copy of the original, G.3357, G.3358. 'Responsibility statement' seems to read 'Drawn & Engraved by I. Dort [??] from a plan Published by Mr. I. Winter'. Of very rough appearence, suggesting unsophisticated engraving.

Scale:

1:6336

Map-maker:

J. Winter [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

22.7 x 16.7

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, piers, misc: Dry dock; existing and proposed piers; dolphins.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: Cruciform.

Known copies of map:

BL X.809/2012 [1976: Whitby: Caedmon].

Industry:

ship yards, rope walk

River and foreshore features:

foreshore, foreshore material specified

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

Abbey: in plan, with piers.

Landowners and occupiers:

notable residents: [Hugh Cholmley Esq's house].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: With sea-monster.

Relief:

prominent hills

Symbolic elements:

Sea-monster: in cartouche.

Crosses:

cross, (pictorial)

Stated measuerments:

soundings: Presumably in feet.

Ordnance Survey's

1849

1:1056

1:10,560

1891-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560