Berkshire-Reading-1643 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22431

Map Date:

? 1643

Repository reference:

BL 2366.d.4

Historic county:

Berkshire

Town name:

Reading

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SU714733

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 7172

Comments on map:

In J.M. Guilding [ed], Reading Records: Diary of the Corporation, Vol IV, London and Oxford: Parker, 1896, f.p. 73. Transcript of original for which no location given: some modern names added. Lithographed by J.A. Burt. Scale of 100 rods, each of 10 feet: about 1 inch to 37 rods, i.e. about 1:4440. The only 'urban' detail is the street plan.

Scale:

1:4440

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

38.0 x 41.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

misc.: Earthworks, salients, bastions.

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

BL 2366.d.4, BOL G.A. Berks 4o 31/4, Reading Lib LMV.310 [via Eugene Burden] [1896: in J.M. Guilding (ed), Reading records, London & Oxford, Parker].

Antiquities:

Abbey.

Ordnance Survey's

1875-6

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560