Berkshire-Reading-1610 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18431

Map Date:

1610

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.c.20

Historic county:

Berkshire

Town name:

Reading

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU714733

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 7172

Map title:

'Redding'.

Comments on map:

Inset on 'Buckingham both shyre and shire-towne describ.', which has note 'For that Bark:Shire could not contayn space for this Towne I have here inserted it, as one of ye moft ancient and chie:fest in ye coutye.' (The Berkshire map has a panorama of Windsor, which presumably squeezed out the Reading map.) Scale measured as 1 inch to 130 paces, 1:7800.

Scale:

1:7800

Map-maker:

John Speed [author], G. Hubell, Popes Head Alley [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.7 x 12.0 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

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 [EB notes this is a proof copy], K.Top.7.21, K.Top.7.22; BOL Gough Maps 92, Fol BS 275, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL G1/C17.2/2, CUL Atlas.3.95.15 [1611/1953: 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 C15 c16=G24/C15.12 [1616/1988: 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: Geo 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...]; BLML C.7.e.6, CUL Maps.bb.17.G.7 [1666: R.Rea]; 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 Bl.14.Jur. [1676: Bassett & Chiswell]; BOL (E)C17:15(43) [1676/1971: Kelly: repub in directory]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL C17 b.2 [1720.c: H. Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...]; BLML Maps C.7.e.7 [1743: Overton]; BL C.55.i.2, BOL G.A.Berks C.14, CUL VIII.9.3 [1816: in Man, History]; BOL Dir.Gen.Top. d.2/1877 [1877: Kelly]; Reading Lib [R/LB-Acc.4070] [1883: in Ditchfield (ed), Ecclesiastical history of Reading, Reading, Blackwell, 1883].

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

Monastic sites.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

'Rural' part includes a cow being milked, a grazing horse, and two horses apparently getting frisky.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1875-6

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560