Buckinghamshire-Buckingham-1690 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18473

Map Date:

? 1690

Repository reference:

BL 577.f.2

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:

'Buckingam

Comments on map:

In [J.C. Beer], Das Neu-Gerhernischte Gross-Britannien..., Nurnberg, f.p.124. Attribution to Beerand dating to 1690 [rather than to Matthias Merian and dating to 1650] are via D. Smith, 'The enduring image of early British townscapes', Cartographic Journal 28 (1991), 163-175 (esp. p. 169), and Raymond Frostrick, The printed plans of Norwich (2002), p.19.

Scale:

1:10,000*

Map-maker:

[Johann Christoph Beer]

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.0 x 16.0

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.II, part VI, BL 577.f.2, CUL F169.c.1.1 [1690: J.C.Beer, 13 x 17 cm, in Das neu-geharnischte Goss-Britannien, fp 126]; [1978: in Gordon Wyatt, Maps of Buckinghamshire, Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1978, 33].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Ploughing on west, grazing animals on east, as on Speed. Map is a straight copy from Speed, including the animals, but the only text is in the title.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1879

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898-9

1:2500

1:10,560