El Ballestero - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 19 May 2022 15:11:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg El Ballestero - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Map of El Ballestero (Albacete) in 1752 https://historylab.es/map-of-el-ballestero-albacete-in-1752/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=map-of-el-ballestero-albacete-in-1752 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:09 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/plano-de-el-ballestero-albacete-en-1752/ Planimetry. Map of El Ballestero according to the representation of the Cadastre of the Marqués de la Ensenada (1752).

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]]> The Cadastre of the Marquis de la Ensenada, carried out in the middle of the 18th century, was a great impetus on the part of the government to increase fiscal and demographic control. Of all the areas concerned, such as professions, location, economic activities, number of inhabitants, churches, brotherhoods, and the surroundings of the municipalities, it is the latter which graphically revealed the context in which the households were settled.
This example of the village of El Ballestero, dependent as a hamlet on the town of Alcaraz during the Modern Age, had begun its urban configuration before its emancipation. In 1752 we see a total of 7 roads containing a total of 61 dwelling houses. The main areas of the town centre were located around the square and the church. The average size of all the buildings in El Ballestero ranged between 100 and 150 m2. The average household size was 3.6 tenants, and nuclear households accounted for 80% of the total.

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