Yorks-Whitby-1778 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22599

Map Date:

1778

Repository reference:

BL 209.e.11

Historic county:

Yorks, North Riding

Town name:

Whitby

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NZ900110

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NZ 9007

Map title:

'Plan of the town and harbour of Whitby. Made in the year 1778 by L. Charlton.'

Comments on map:

F.t.p. of Lionel Charlton [Teacher of the Mathematics at Whitby], The history of Whitby and of Whitby Abbey, Whitby: Monkman; London: Cadell, etc, 1779.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

L. Charlton [sv], Jas. Taylor [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

47.5 x 28.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Blocks: no detail.

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, navigation aids, piers, quays, misc: Dry Docks. Pictorial beacons, etc. Penny Hedge [projects into river: meaning uncertain].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Piers shown inn abbey.

Public buildings:

misc: Tolbooth.

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BL 209.e.11, G.3471, BOL Gough Yorks 32, CC 40 Art Seld, CUL Maps.bb.93.77.2, RGS Library [in Rev. G. Young, A history of Whitby, 1817].

Industry:

ship yards, rope walk: [Ship-building indicated by pictorial ships on stocks].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore, foreshore material specified

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

'here Streanshalh formerly stood' [sic]: east of abbey.

Landowners and occupiers:

notable residents: [Owner of former abbot's house].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Restrained, leafy. Ammonites or similar at top.

Relief:

cliffs

Post and telegraphs:

misc: Signal Flag [pictorial].

Symbolic elements:

Ammonites: at top of cartouche.

Crosses:

cross, (pictorial)

Ordnance Survey's

1849

1:1056

1:10,560

1891-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560