Cambridgeshire-Cambridge-1665
CBTM:
22219
Map Date:
? 1665
Repository reference:
BOL Gough Maps Cambridgeshire 11
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:
Reputedly by Wencelaus Hollar. Scale of paces: 2.30 inches to 300 paces, i.e.about 1 inch to 130 paces or 1:7826 if 60-inch paces are assumed.
Scale:
1:7800
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
23.5 x 15.3 [map maximum: plate 28.2 x 25.3].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
BOL Wood 423, fol 2, CUL SSS.12.1,8; CUL Views.x.1,4 [different state]; BOL Gough Maps Cambridgeshire 11 [1665]; BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.IV, part I, Gough Maps 2. Fol.22B [1700].
Gardens:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative: For prospect.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top of plate: 'The prospect of Cambridge from London road'; in top left of map area: 'Cambridgeshire', 0.62 ins to 15 miles (about 1:1,532,000).
Arms and heraldry:
university colleges, municipal, misc: Top of map area: King Sigebert, founder of the university and town; [left and right: the Cambridge colleges; top of map: arms borne by those who have also been Earl of Cambridge].
Ordnance Survey's
1885-6
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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