Cambridgeshire-Ely-1689 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21186

Map Date:

? 1689

Repository reference:

Cambridge City Library, Cambridgeshire collection, Ca/52, County B, c.1689

Historic county:

Cambridgeshire

Town name:

Ely

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL541804

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 5583

Map title:

'Ely'.

Comments on map:

Inset on Cambridge-shire and the great levell of Fens, extending into the adjacent shires, according to surveys as it is now drained, at ye charges of ye Rt. Hoble. W. Earl of Bedford, and ye other proprietors by Sr. Jonas Moore, &c.' Evidently from Speed.

Scale:

1:14,400

Map-maker:

P. Lea, at ye Atlas and Hercules, Cheapside, London [made & sold].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

9.7 x 9.3

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [?1689]; Cambridge City Library Ca/52 County.B,c.1689, CUL Atlas.4.69.2, Views.x.1,23b [1689.c]; BOL Gough Maps Cambridgeshire 18 [1730.c]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732]; CUL Maps.bb.53.73.1 [1733: pub Bowles]; Maps.bb.53.75.5 [c.1750].

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Title on banner.

Relief:

'molehills': [Named].

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Drawbridg.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1884-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560