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Cambridgeshire-Cambridge-1610

CBTM:
18427
Map Date:
1610
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.7.c.20
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:
'Cambridge'.
Comments on map:
Inset on 'Cambridgshire described with ... the townes situation...'.
Scale:
1:12,500*
Map-maker:
John Speed [author], John Sudbury & George Humble, Popes Head Alley against the Exchange [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
13.7 x 16.5 [inset: maximum].
Number of parts:
1
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, 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 ; Cambridgeshire RO R.60/1/1, Cambridge City Library 1610; CUL [various atlases], Views.x.5,6, ; CUL Maps.bb.53.61.1, Maps.bb.53.61.2 [1611]; BOL Gough Maps 92, BOL Fol BS 275, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; CUL Atlas.2.97.32 [1611/1975.c: N.T. Leslie pb [Rare Books] The English county maps of John Speed]; CUL Maps.bb.53.62.3 [1614-16]; BOL Douce S. subt. 50, CUL Atlas 4.61.1 [1616: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL C15 c16 = G24/ C15.12 [1616/1988: Pavilion/Michael Joseph]; CUL Atlas 5.99.222 [1616/1995: reduced facsimile, as 1616/1988]; BOL Douce Prints b.24 [1627/32: Geo Humble]; CUL Maps.30.02 [1627/1940.c: as Christmas card]; BOL Bl.14.Jur [1676: Bassett, Chiswell]; BOL C17 b.2 [1720.c: H. Overton]; BOL Gough Maps Cambridgeshire 3, 3A [1743: Overton]; BOL G1/C17.2/3, CUL Atlas.3.95.15 [1954: John Arlott (intro), Phoenix House (pub)]; BOL C17 b.13, CUL Atlas.2.95.6 [1614/1957: pb Guildford: Charles Traylen [dated 1955 in some lists]]; BOL (E)C17:17(30) [1971: Kelly: repub in directory]; BOL G.Per.14 e [1971: in Bulletin SUC, 6(1)]; CUL Maps.bb.53.74.1, Maps.bb.53.74.2 [1743].
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground: 'Kings College backsides'.
Antiquities:
Pithagoras houfe.
Arms and heraldry:
university colleges, municipal: [University and college arms round main map].
Ordnance Survey's
1885-6
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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