Bedfordshire-Bedford-1610 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18429

Map Date:

1610

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.c.20

Historic county:

Bedfordshire

Town name:

Bedford

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL050497

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 0549

Map title:

'Bedforde'.

Comments on map:

Inset on 'Bedford Shire and the situation of Bedford described...'. Scale measured as 1 inch to 150 paces, 1:9000. (The original manuscript of this is in Merton College, Oxford, D.3.30, map 1, dated 30 September 1608: see Sarah Bendall, 'Draft town maps for John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine', Imago Mundi 54, 2002, 30-45 (Appendix on p.44).)

Scale:

1:9000

Map-maker:

John Speed [sv], Jodocus Hondius [eng], George Humbel, Popes Head Alley against the Exchange [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

15.5 x 11.8 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets, misc: Sheps Chepping [? sheep market field].

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Known copies of map:

CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [the Gardner Copy: NFP] [1603-11: proof set]; BLML Maps C.7.c.20, BLML Maps C.7.c.5, BOL Gough Maps 92, BOL Fol BS 275, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611]; CUL Maps.bb.30.02 [1611/1923-6: Kelly: repub in directory]; BOL G.1/C.17.2/3, CUL Atlas.3.95.15 [1954: John Arlott (intro), Phoenix House (pub)]; CUL Atlas.2.97.32 [1611/1975.c: N.T. Leslie pb [Rare Books] The English county maps of John Speed]; BOL C17 b.13, CUL Atlas.2.95.6 [1614/1957: pb Guildford: Charles Traylen [dated 1955 in some lists]]; BOL Douce S.subt.50, CUL Atlas 4.61.1 [1616: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL C16 c.16 = G24/C15.12 [1988: Pavilion/Michael Joseph]; CUL Atlas 5.99.222 [1616/1995: reduced facsimile, as 1616/1988]; 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: Humble]; CUL Atlas.4.62.2, Bury.18.2 [1631: A prospect...]; 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 B1.14 Jur [1676: Bassett/Chiswell]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL C17 b.2, BOL M.Red 1/36 [1720: Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...]; BOL Gough Maps Bedfordshire 5 [1743: Overton]; Bedfordshire RO X/1/88/1 [reproduction]; CUL Maps.c.50.93.3 [in L.M.Hawkins, Old Bedford, 1936].

Industry:

lime/cement

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

Monastic remains, Ould Ruines.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Man with long pole and dog, bottom left.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1881-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560