Montgomeryshire-Montgomery-1610 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22632

Map Date:

1610

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.c.20

Historic county:

Montgomeryshire

Town name:

Montgomery

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO222966

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 1793

Map title:

'Montgomery'.

Comments on map:

Inset on 'Montgomery Shire'. Scale measured as 1 inch to 130 paces (1:7800): 60-inch pace assumed.

Scale:

1:7800

Map-maker:

John Speed [sv], John Sudbury & George Humble, Popes Head Alley against the Exchange, London [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.7 x 10.3 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Well: pictorial, with winding-handle.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Penal:

pillory, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): With ditches.

Known copies of map:

CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [the Gardner Copy: NFP] [1603-11: proof set]; LGC Map 3155 133/6/9 [1608.c: proof]; BLML Maps C.7.c.20, BLML Maps C.7.c.5(33), BOL Gough Maps 92, Fol BS 275, C17 b.1, CUL L*.7.8(AA), LGC Atlas Folio 69 146/3/4, LGC Atlas Folio 146 028/2/7, Atlas Folio 71 146/3/4, LGC Map 5310, 5311, 5312, 5313 [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL C15 b.7 [1611/1970: S.R. Publishers]; BOL Douce S subt.50, CUL Atlas 4.61.1 [1616: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL C15 c16=G24/C15.12 [1616/1988: Pavilion/Michael Joseph]; CUL Atlas 5.99.222 [1616/1995: reduced facsimile, as 1616/1988]; LGC Atlas Folio 114 146/3/18 [1627: Humble]; CUL Atlas.7.62.1, Atlas.7.64.4,2, Syn.7.62.91 [1627: 'described and abridged...': different typesettings]; CUL L*.7.10(A) [1627: A prospect of the most famous parts of the World...]; CUL Atlas.7.95.7 [1627/1951: E.G.R. Taylor, An atlas of Tudor England and Wales, Harmondsworth, King Penguin, 1951, 19 cm]; BOL Douce Prints b.24 [1627/32: Geo Humble]; CUL Atlas.4.62.2, Bury.18.2 [1631: A prospect...]; LGC Map 5308 [1632]; CUL Atlas.7.64.4, Atlas 7.62.2, Atlas 7.64.3 [1646: A prospect...]; CUL Atlas.7.66.3,i, Atlas.7.66.4,1 [1666: England... described]; CUL Atlas.7.67.1 [1676: England... described and abridged]; CUL Atlas.4.67.7, Qq*.1.280(AA) [2 copies], Hanson.bb.43, Ely.a.188 [1676]; CUL Maps.bb.53.67.1, Maps.bb.53.67.2 [1676: different letterpress settings]; BOL Gough Maps Wales 22, Bl.14.Jur., LGC Atlas Folio 73 146/3/4, Atlas Folio 74 146/3/4, Atlas 75 146/3/4, LGC Map 5314, 5315, 5316, 5317 [1676: Bassett & Chiswell]; CUL Atlas.4.97.7 [1676/1970: Wales... by J.E. Rawnsley, repub East Ardsley: S.R. Publishers Ltd, 1970]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL C17 b.2, M.Res 1/62 [1720.c: H. Overton]; LGC Map 5541 [1980: N.Mus.W/Welsh Gas].

Gardens:

shown: [Orchard-like].

Leisure and entertainment:

misc: ? maypole: pictorial.

Antiquities:

'The Ruines of the old wall'.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

'molehills'

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Unexplained fence-like things in street have been interpreted as tenters elsewhere.

Arms and heraldry:

misc: 'Arma R. de Montgomerico'.

Ordnance Survey's

1882-4

1:2500

1:10,560