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Buckinghamshire-Buckingham-1610

CBTM:
18430
Map Date:
1610
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.7.c.20
Historic county:
Buckinghamshire
Town name:
Buckingham
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SP695338
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SP 6933
Map title:
'Buckingham'.
Comments on map:
Inset on 'Buckingham both shyre and shire-towne describ.', which includes Reading, to which the main county map is extended. Scale measured as 1 inch to 140 paces, 1:8400.
Scale:
1:8400
Map-maker:
John Speed [author], G. Hubell, Popes Head Alley [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
13.2 x 11.8 [inset].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
clergy residences
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Named well.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
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, CUL, RGS [1:610]; BOL Gough Maps 92, BOL Fol BS 275, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611: Sudbury, Humble]; BOL G.1/C17.2/2, CUL Atlas.3.95.15 [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 c.13, CUL Atlas.2.95.6 [1614/1957: pb Guildford: Charles Traylen [dated 1955 in some lists]]; BOL Douce S. subt. 50 [1616: Sudbury & Humble]; CUL Maps.bb.52.61.1, CUL Atlas 4.61.1 [1616]; BOL C15 c.16 = G.24/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...]; CUL Maps.bb.17.G.7 [1666]; 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...].
Gardens:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Ploughing, hoeing, etc, shown in fields around town.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1879
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1898-9
1:2500
1:10,560
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