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Cambridge, William Custance, 1798.<\/b><\/p>
William Custance was a builder, land agent, surveyor and enclosure commissioner who by 1801 was living in Chesterton and was employed by many Cambridge colleges to compile maps and provide surveys and valuations of them.<\/p>
His map gives a very clear picture of Cambridge just before the major changes that were to take place in the early part of the nineteenth century. Although the outline of the city had changed little, further intensification of building can be seen \u2013 especially in the centre of the town where virtually all open land has now been built on.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "A new plan of the University and town of Cambridge to the present year 1798" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "Paper" }, { "label": "Publisher", "value": "Surveyed by and published for W'm Custance" }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "Maps.bb.53.79.1" }, { "label": "Note(s)", "value": "Scale: Scale approximately 1:4,000; Coordinates: (E 0°06ʹ10ʺ--E 0°08ʹ21ʺ/N 52°12ʹ59ʺ--N 52°11ʹ36ʺ)" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "University of Cambridge -- Maps -- Early works to 1800; Cambridge (England) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800" }, { "label": "Associated Name(s)", "value": "Custance, William, surveyor and publisher from Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, active 1790-1833; Russel, John, 1750?-1829" }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "English" } ], "@type": "sc:Manifest", "attribution": "Provided by Cambridge University Library. Zooming image © Cambridge University Library, All rights reserved. Images made available for download are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-NC 3.0) This metadata is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.", "structures": [{ "canvases": ["https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/iiif/PR-MAPS-BB-00053-00079-00001/canvas/1"], "@type": "sc:Range", "@id": "https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/iiif/PR-MAPS-BB-00053-00079-00001/range/DOCUMENT", "label": "A new plan of the University and town of Cambridge to the present year 1798" }], "description": "
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William Custance was a builder, land agent, surveyor and enclosure commissioner who by 1801 was living in Chesterton and was employed by many Cambridge colleges to compile maps and provide surveys and valuations of them.<\/p>
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