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Cambridgeshire-Ely-1610

CBTM:
18441
Map Date:
1610
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.7.c.20
Historic county:
Cambridgeshire
Town name:
Ely
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TL541804
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TL 5583
Map title:
'Ely'.
Comments on map:
Inset on 'Huntington both shire and shire towne with the ancient citie Ely described': below the map is a note on Ely, half of which explains that, as in other instances, there isn't room to show it in its proper place: Ely itself is outside the county map. Scale measured as 1 inch to 155 paces, 1:9300. (The original manuscript of this is in Merton College, Oxford, D.3.30, map 5, dated 5 July 1607: see Sarah Bendall, 'Draft town maps for John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine', Imago Mundi 54, 2002, 30-45 (Appendix on p.44).)
Scale:
1:9300
Map-maker:
John Speed [sv], Jodocus Hondius [eng], George Humbell, Popes Head Alley against the Exchange [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
15.7 x 14.0 [inset].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
windmills
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Markets and exchanges:
markets
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 Maps C.7.c.5, CUL Maps.53(1).61.1 [1610]; BOL Gough Maps 92, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL G1/C17.2/3, CUL Atlas.3.95.15 [1611/1954: John Arlott (intro), Phoenix House (pub)]; CUL Atlas.2.97.32 [1611/1975.c: N.T. Leslie pb [Rare Books] The English county maps of John Speed]; BOL C17 b.13, CUL Atlas.2.95.6 [1614/1957: pb Guildford: Charles Traylen [dated 1955 in some lists]]; 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]; CUL Atlas.7.62.1, Atlas.7.64.4,2, Syn.7.62.91 [1627: 'described and abridged...': different typesettings]; CUL L*.7.10(A) [1627: A prospect of the most famous parts of the World...]; CUL Atlas.7.95.7 [1627/1951: E.G.R. Taylor, An atlas of Tudor England and Wales, Harmondsworth, King Penguin, 1951, 19 cm]; BOL Douce Prints b.24 [1627/32: Geo Humble]; CUL Atlas.4.62.2, Bury.18.2 [1631: A prospect...]; CUL Atlas.7.64.4, Atlas 7.62.2, Atlas 7.64.3 [1646: A prospect...]; CUL Maps.bb.17.G.8 [1662: pub Rea]; CUL Atlas.7.66.3,i, Atlas.7.66.4,1 [1666: England... described]; CUL Atlas.7.67.1 [1676: England... described and abridged]; CUL Atlas.4.67.7, Qq*.1.280(AA) [2 copies], Hanson.bb.43, Ely.a.188 [1676]; CUL Maps.bb.53.67.1, Maps.bb.53.67.2 [1676: different letterpress settings]; BOL Gough Maps Huntingdonshire 2 [1676: Bassett & Chiswell]; CUL Maps.bb.30.02 [1676/1923-5: Kelly: repub in directory]; BOL (E)C17:35(12) [1676/1971: Kelly: repub in directory]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL C17 b.2 [1720.c: H. Overton]; BOL Gough Maps Huntingdonshire 4 [1738: H. Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...]; CUL Maps bb.66.74.1 [1738/43: J. Hondius]; BOL Gough Maps Huntingdonshire 5 [1770: C. Dicey]; Huntingdon Library Local Studies Print Map 85, 86, 87, 105 233 [1610: ? copy].
Gardens:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Relief:
'molehills': With windmills on top.
Miscellaneous transport-related:
The drawe bridge [over river: pictorial].
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Outside city are two men with staves and dogs, apparently sniffing for something.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1884-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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