Essex-Waltham Abbey-1590 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19721

Map Date:

? 1590

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 186.h.2(23)

Historic county:

Essex

Town name:

Waltham Abbey

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL380007

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 4198

Comments on map:

'Rotograph' copy by Office of Works, 1938, from original at Hatfield House. Purpose uncertain, but certainly not an 'urban' map, despite the scale: the streets do not emerge clearly. The copy is at 108 per cent of original size, so scale and dimensions have been compensated.

Scale:

1:15,000*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

42.7 x 57.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

other: Evidently 'fully coloured'.

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial: Rough.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Known copies of map:

Hatfield House, Cecil Papers [original]; BLML Maps 186.h.2(23) [photo]; Essex RO T/M 125/1 [photo].

Industry:

misc: Fulling Mill.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Ordnance Survey's

1869 - O

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560