Cambridgeshire-Cambridge-1634 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20686

Map Date:

1634

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:

'Cantabrigia qualis extitit Anno Dni 1634'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from version reproduced in J. Willis Clark and Arthur Grey, Old plans of Cambridge, Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes, 1921. For Thomas Fuller's History of the university: all text on map is in latin. Street plan resembles Lyne rather than Hamond.

Scale:

1:4752*

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

28.0 x 35.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, (pictorial)

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BL 483.f.4, CUL maps.bb.53.63.1, Acton.a.8.5, Cam.a.655.1, Views.x.1/9, Atlas.5.65.1; BL 731.k.21, CUL Ll.14.66, Cam.c.840.1 (2 copies), Maps.bb.53.91.9,a,b, Ll.14.65, Cam.c.840.2 (2 copies), Maps.53(2).84.2 [1840 fac]; BLML Maps 2.e.13, BOL C17:70 Cambridge a.1, CUL Atlas.2.92.1, CUL 5696.c.92.2, RGS 1.C.94 [Pl.1 in J. Willis Clark & Arthur Grey, Old plans of Cambridge, 1921]; [another 1840 version] BL 731.k.20; Cambridge City Library 1635.A; Cambridge City Library C.44.1 [Lysons version]; Maps.bb.999.01.102 [photo].

Antiquities:

Domus Pythagoras.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Borders:

decorative

Arms and heraldry:

misc: Baptiste Noel, Viscount Camden.

Walls, embankments, etc:

King's Ditch

Ordnance Survey's

1885-6

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560