Yorks-York-1750 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18343

Map Date:

1750

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MPH 1/361

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

York

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE603522

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 6151

Map title:

(1) English title with 'cathedral' surround, top right: 'A Plan of the city of York survey'd by Peter Chasserau' [1766 version adds 'with Improvements to ye year 1766']; (2) longer French title [], 'Plan de la ville et faubourgs de York capitale de la Comte du meme nom leve par le Sr. P.Chasserau & publee par J. Rocque a Charing Cross, 1750.'

Comments on map:

Scale bars of toises (8.2 cm: 150 toises) and feet and English publication note at bottom.

Scale:

1:2880

Map-maker:

Peter Chasserau [sv], John Rocque [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

65.0 x 44.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 5960(4), K.Top. 45.4, BOL Gough Maps Yorkshire 29, CUL Maps.aa.93.75.1, TNA [PRO] MPH 1/361, York Library Map 19, York Minster Archives York Maps Portfolio, Yorkshire Archaeological Society 96.B.11 [1750]; TNA [PRO] 1/MPE 392; BLML Maps* 5960(1), CUL Maps.AA.93.76.2, York Library Map 20 [1766]; [1997: in Murray, Scarborough, York and Leeds...].

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Magnetic data:

diagram

Parkland:

public parks: [Named public gardens].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Nine views of cathedral and other notable public buildings surround mapped area; inset of Yorkshire showing Roman roads.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

River-traffic in river.

Ordnance Survey's

1849-51

1:1056

1:10,560

1889

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560