Cardiganshire-Cardigan-1610 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22631

Map Date:

1610

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.c.20

Historic county:

Cardiganshire

Town name:

Cardigan

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SN179461

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SN 1847

Map title:

'Cardigan'.

Comments on map:

Inset on 'Cardigan Shyre described with the due forme of the shiretown as it was surveyed by I.S. Anno 1610'. Scale measured as 1 inch to 110 paces (1:6600): 60-inch pace assumed.

Scale:

1:6600

Map-maker:

John Speed [sv], Iodocus Hondius [eng], John Sudbury & George Humble, Popes Head Alley against the Exchange, London [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

14.7 x 10.7 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Penal:

gallows, (pictorial): [unoccupied: to north of town].

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

cross, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [the Gardner Copy: NFP] [1603-11: proof set]; LGC Map 5143, Map 5678 [1608: proof]; BLML Maps C.7.c.20, BLML Maps C.7.c.5(10), BOL Gough Maps 92, Fol. BS 275, C17 b.1, CUL L*.7.8(AA), LGC 146/3/4 Atlas Folio 69, Folio 71, Map 5144, Map 5145 [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL C15 b.7 [1611/1970: S.R. Publishers]; BOL Douce S subt. 50, CUL Atlas 4.61.1, LGC Map 3287, Map 5146 [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]; LGC Map 5147 [1627: Humble]; 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: 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...]; LGC Map 5148 [1646: Wm Humble]; LGC Map 5149 [1662: Roger 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 Wales 16, Bl.14.Jur., LGC 28/4/10 Atlas Folio 76, 146/3/4 Atlas Folio 73, Folio 74, Folio 75, Folio 76, Map 5150, Map 5151, Map 5152 [1676: Bassett & Chiswell]; CUL Atlas.4.97.7 [1676/1970: Wales... by J.E. Rawnsley, repub East Ardsley: S.R. Publishers Ltd, 1970]; LGC Map 5153 [1695: Browne]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; LGC 28/3/5 Atlas Folio 77 [1713: Bassett/Overton]; BOL C17 b.2, M.res 1/64 [1720.c: Overton]; LGC Map 5154 [1743: Overton]; LGC Map 6607 [1900.c: R.Howe del]; LGC Map 5544 [1980: Welsh Gas].

Gardens:

shown: [Orchard-like].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

'molehills'

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial shipping in river.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1887-8

1:2500

1:10,560