Maps
Tewkesbury 1835
The Croome Map 1825
One of the members of the Croome family settled in Tewkesbury and made a name for himself as the designer of one of the first maps of Tewkesbury in 1825. The Croome Map is an invaluable representational map, with the title suggesting it was drawn at the behest of a local major landowner. (As far as we know there is no connection with Croome Park, the seat of the Earls of Coventry).
Enclosures Map of 1811
This map from 1811, now in the County Records Office, shows the acreage owned by individuals on the Severn Ham and fields and meadows around Tewkesbury as part of the enclosures carried out at the time. Boundaries on the ground are marked by stones. most of which have now disappeared as there is only one owner, to all practical purposes, and the land is let for the grass in blocks of about 30 acres.Click to view.
A Plan of Tewkesbury by Nathaniel Hartland, 1807
Plan of Tewkesbury by William Dyde, 1790
W Dyde's 1790 Map
Williams Dyde's map published in The History and Antiquities of Tewkesbury, 1790
This is the first detailed map that exists before Ordnance Survey began mapping Britain.