Cambridgeshire-Cambridge-1689 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21185

Map Date:

? 1689

Repository reference:

Cambridge City Library, Cambridgeshire collection,

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:

'Cambridg'.

Comments on map:

Inset on Cambridge-shire and the great levell of Fens, extending into the adjacent shires, according to surveys as it is now drained, at ye charges of ye Rt. Hoble. W. Earl of Bedford, and ye other proprietors by Sr. Jonas Moore, &c.' Buildings are all shown in plan, so perhaps from Loggan rather than Speed.

Scale:

1:12,500*

Map-maker:

P. Lea, at ye Atlas and Hercules, Cheapside, London [made & sold].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

11.2 x 16.2 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries: With 'molehill'.

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [?1689]; Cambridge City Library Ca/52 County.B,c.1689, CUL Atlas.4.69.2, Views.x.1,23b [1689.c]; BOL Gough Maps Cambridgeshire 18 [1730.c]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732]; CUL Maps.bb.53.73.1 [1733: pub Bowles]; Maps.bb.53.75.5 [c.1750].

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

libraries/newsrooms: ['Publick Libr.'].

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Title on banner.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete

Ordnance Survey's

1885-6

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560