Breconshire-Brecon-1610 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22629

Map Date:

1610

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.c.20

Historic county:

Breconshire

Town name:

Brecon

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO045285

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 0428

Map title:

'Breknoke.'

Comments on map:

Inset on 'Breknoke both shire and towne described...'. Scale measured as 1 inch to 110 paces (1:6600): 60-inch pace assumed.

Scale:

1:6600

Map-maker:

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

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

14.0 x 10.5 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

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

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [the Gardner Copy: NFP] [1603-11: proof set]; LGC 133/6/9 Map 3151 [proof state]; BLML Maps C.7.c.20, BLML Maps C.7.c.5(2), BOL Gough Maps 92, Fol. BS 275, C17 b.1, CUL L*.7.8(AA), LGC Map 5109, 146/3/4 Atlas Folio 69, 71 [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL Douce S subr.50, CUL Atlas 4.61.1, Map 5110, Map 5111, Map 5711 [1616: 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, 146/3/18 Atlas Folio 114 [1627: Humble]; CUL Atlas.4.62.2, Bury.18.2 [1631: A prospect...]; LGC Map 5112 [1632: Humble]; CUL Atlas.7.64.4, Atlas 7.62.2, Atlas 7.64.3 [1646: A prospect...]; Map 5113, Map 5114 [1646: Humble]; 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., LGC 146/3/4 Atlas Folio 73, 74, 75, 28/4/10 Atlas Folio 76, Map 5115 [1676: Bassett & Chiswell]; CUL Atlas.4.97.7 [1676/1970: Wales... by J.E. Rawnsley, repub East Ardsley: S.R. Publishers Ltd, 1970]; Map 5116 [1695: Browne]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; Map 5117 [1713: Bassett], 28/3/5 Atlas Folio 77, Map 5117 [1713: Overton]; BOL C17 b.2, BOL M.Res 1/66 [1720.c: Overton]; Map 5118 [1743: Overton]; Map 5543 [1980: Welsh Gas].

Industry:

textiles: [Suggested by pictorial tenters or fences].

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

Priorye.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Crosses:

multiple crosses, (pictorial)

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1886-7

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560