Anglesey-Beaumaris-1690 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22613

Map Date:

? 1690

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.c.4

Historic county:

Anglesey

Town name:

Beaumaris

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SH605760

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SH 6070

Map title:

'Beaumaris'.

Comments on map:

Inset top right on 'Mona Insula alias Anglesey and Caernarvan Shire discribed by C.S. corrected and amended with many additions by Phil: Lea'; included in The shires of England and Wales described by Christopher Saxton being the best and original mapps with many additions and corrections, London: Philip Lea, n.d. A straightforward reduced-scale imitation of Speed. Scale measured as 0.85 ins to 160 paces, 1:11,294.

Scale:

1:11,250

Map-maker:

Philip Lea [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

11.0 x 7.5 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BOL Gough Maps 37 Fol 29, LGC Map 5104, Map 5677 ['1689']; BLML Maps C.7.c.4 [? 1690]; LGC 146/3/3 Atlas Folio 68; BLML Maps 6125 (6) ['1695']; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732].

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

Friery.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Banner.

Relief:

(pictorial)

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial ship by quayside.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1887

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560