Cardiganshire-Cardigan-1650 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22823

Map Date:

? 1650

Repository reference:

BL Add. MS. 11564 ('6' [recte fols 12-13])

Historic county:

Cardiganshire

Town name:

Cardigan

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SN179461

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SN 1847

Map title:

'Plan de Cardigan.'

Comments on map:

Evidently derived from Speed. In a volume, untitled, of 116 manuscript 'town plans' of Europe, in which the main interest seems to be in the fortifications and buildings outside the walls, rather than in building-up within the walls. Text is in French, but only thing named is 'Le Colege'. Scale measured as 1 inch to 37 'pas' (1:2220 if a 60-inch pace is used).

Scale:

1:2220

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

49.0 x 40.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, decorative

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

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

Markets and exchanges:

cross, (pictorial)

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BL Add MS 11564.

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

'molehills'

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial shipping in river.

Ordnance Survey's

1887-8

1:2500

1:10,560