Old Sussex Mapped

Kitchin's Sussex 1750


 

Contents
Introduction 
The whole map 
Index sheet to parts of the map 
Gazetteer, place names 
Map features 
Thomas Kitchin
Other maps 
Introduction

MAP BACKGROUND

 

Map Title: Sussex Drawn from an Actual Survey and regulated by Astronomical Observations. By Thomas Kitchin, Geographer.

First Published in: "The London Magazine: or, gentleman's monthly intelligence" … vol. 19. London, R. Baldwin. Issue for January 1750.

This map is from the West Sussex Records office and has the identity number PM426.
 
Thomas Kitchin
Thomas Kitchin, an engraver and publisher from c.1738 to 1776, held the appointment of Hydrographer to the King. His output was prolific. He engraved the maps of the British and French dominions in North Maerica by John Mitchell (1755), which was used at the peace coucil at the end of the revolutionary war. In his later years he worked with his son (hence senior after his name in the c. 1755 edition of the Small English Atlas). He died in 1784. His name is sometimes spelled Kitchen.
References : D. Kingsley. Printed Maps of Sussex, 1575-1900. Sussex Record Society, Volume 72. Produced by Alan Sutton Publishing limited. 17a, Brunswick Road, Gloucester.
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