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Cambridgeshire-Cambridge-1588

CBTM:
21402
Map Date:
[1588]
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 29.b.44
Historic county:
Cambridgeshire
Town name:
Cambridge
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TL449587
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TL 4459
Map title:
'Cambridge.'
Comments on map:
From Henry B. Wheatley and Edmund W. Ashbee, The particular description of England, 1588... by William Smith, Rouge Dragon, London: 'Printed for subscribers only', 1879, Plate XXIII. As the editors suggest, it presumably derives from Richard Lyne, 1574-5.
Scale:
1:5000*
Map-maker:
[William Smith [author].]
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
15.3 x 19.0
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, general highlighting of district, decorative: Green ground-tint.
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
CUL MS Plans.871 [1813: tracing, thought to be this]; Cambridge City Library 1590.A [photo from Sloane 2596, f.64.r: 18.5 x 14.5''], CUL Views.x.1,13, Maps.53(2).87.59 [1877], BLML Maps 29.b.44, BOL C.A.Gen.Top.4o 265, CUL Atlas.6.58.1 [Particular Description: colour copy, 1879] [Exeter 21402]; BOL G.A.Cambs b.5 [in J.W. Clark, Cantabrigia Illustrata, Cambridge: Macmillan & Bowes, 1905]; CUL Maps.53(2).91.1 [c.1914]; Cambridge City Library, Cambridgeshire collection, [folder behind desk] [2003: Cambridgeshire Record Society reissue, 2003, using a Victorian version] [Exeter 21172].
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Two rowing-boats on river.
Arms and heraldry:
university colleges, municipal: [Town arms uncoloured].
Ordnance Survey's
1885-6
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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