| Description | Scale 20 perches : 1 inch, parchment mounted on linen, 60 inches x 30 inches. Hand coloured, field names and acreages of owners' fields, owners' names in other closes, stylised buildings and animals. Border of stylised flowering trees. Scale beside drawing of surveyor holding a pair of dividers. Arms of Aston baronetcy.
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This map is described in the Derbyshire Record Society's "A Catalogue of Local Maps of Derbyshire c.1528–1800" (compiled by Harold Nichols, revised by Mary Wiltshire assisted by Susan Woore, published 2012). The description reads as follows:
An exact map of Risley and Breaston Survey'd by Matts. Aston. 1722. Surveyor: Matthew Aston. Scale: of 100 perches [1:4000]. A small pair of dividers is held over the scale in the hand of an eighteenth century gentleman (the surveyor?). Size: 74 x 151 cm. Materials: parchment on linen, hand coloured. Centred on: SK4635 Notes: coloured compass rose, top of sheet north-west. Estate map, 2400 acres, showing named closes and crofts with single line boundary, area, tenants and colours: other closes uncoloured with owners: houses in stylised elevations in each village: distinctive drawings of substantial buildings: Risley church north elevation, adjacent east a three storey house with 2 chimneys and central door: adjacent south the Hall, gabled with 2 central turrets with flags or weather vanes, curved front steps: in Park, three storey house, central tower [Wood Hall?]; Breaston church south elevation: adjacent east, the Hall with 4 gables: roads, woods: some small enclosures in strip pattern: two unenclosed fields occupy whole of area south of Derby/Nottingham road: crude draftsmanship, attractively colourful, naive decoration: ornate border design of floral bouquets: title on scroll: Aston arms: vignettes in Risley Park, deer, man with gun, cows, man feeding horse.
Location: DRO, D393/1; copies in DRO, D2673; DRO, D2349/Z/Z10 aperture card; DRO, microfilm M/721. |