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Cambridgeshire-Cambridge-1592

CBTM:
20685
Map Date:
22.2.1592
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 2.e.13
Historic county:
Cambridgeshire
Town name:
Cambridge
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TL449587
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TL 4459
Map title:
'Cantebrigia.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from version reproduced in J. Willis Clark and Arthur Grey, Old plans of Cambridge, Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes, 1921. Buildings in birds-eye-view style. Index to colleges, top left [sheet 1], has notes on their dates of foundation, etc. Note on castle [on sheet 3], descriptive note on town [on sheet 4].
Scale:
1:1440
Map-maker:
Johanes Hamond [sv].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
40 x 30 [approximate] [x 9].
Number of parts:
9
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial, public buildings emphasised
Mills:
watermills
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, (pictorial)
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
cross, markets, (pictorial)
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, orchards
Known copies of map:
BOL (E)C17:70 Cambridge (14) [original]; BLML Maps 2.e.13, BOL C17:70 Cambridge a.1, CUL Atlas.2.92.1, CUL Atlas.0.92.15, CUL Maps.bb.999.01.93- , CUL 5696.c.92.2, RGS 1.C.94 [Pl.3-4 in J. Willis Clark & Arthur Grey, Old plans of Cambridge, 1921]; BOL G.A.Cambs b.5 [in J.W.Clark, Cantabrigia Illustrata, Macmillan & Bowes, 1905]; BOL G.Per.14 e [1971: part only, in Bulletin SUC, 6(1)]; Cambridge City Library T2/c/5-1592.A, CUL Maps.FR.y.8, Maps.bb.53(2).94.6, Maps.bb.53(2).97.6 [1972], Maps.53(2).97.27 [Cambridge Evening News, 24:11:1972].
Gardens:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Grazing animals in some fields outside the built-up area.
Arms and heraldry:
university colleges, royal arms, municipal: [Both university and colleges; 'Sigebertus Rex' to left of title].
Miscellaneous religious group:
Former monastic establishments.
Ordnance Survey's
1885-6
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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