Cambridgeshire-Ely-1690 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19735

Map Date:

[1690]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps c.27.e.3(4)

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. Eiis.'

Comments on map:

Attribution to Beer and dating to 1690 [rather than to Matthias Merian and dating to 1650] are via D. Smith, 'The enduring image of early British townscapes', Cartographic Journal 28 (1991), 163-175 (esp. p. 169), and Raymond Frostrick, The printed plans of Norwich (2002), p.19. The British Library copies of Exeter 18302 and 19732-19745 are in a modern bound volume without title-page or any other identification. The only text on the map is in the title. [BLML '1967' catalogue suggests ? Matthias Merian, Frankfort.]

Scale:

1:12,000*

Map-maker:

[Johnann Christoph Beer, Nurnburg [author]].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.0 x 16.2

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

town gates, town walls, (pictorial): These are round ? former monastries, etc, rather than town walls.

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps c.27.e.3, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.II, part VII; BL 577.f.2, CUL F169.c.1.1, Views.x.3,3, Maps.53(1).69.1 [1690: J.C. Beer: 13 x 16 cm, in Das neu-geharnischte Gross-Britannien, fp 148]; BOL Gough Misc. Antiq. Fol 1 (No 184).

Gardens:

shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

At bottom of map: men with pikes behind defence-work, and pikeman and man on galloping horse in foreground.

Relief:

'molehills': [Molehills for the three windmills].

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

A few sketchy cattle in fields around town.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1884-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560