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Cardiganshire-Cardigan-1690

CBTM:
22662
Map Date:
? 1690
Repository reference:
BLML C.7.c.4
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 'Radnor, Breknoke Cardigan and Carmarthen, shires discribed by C.S. corrected and amended with many additions by P. Lea'; included in The shires of England and Wales described by Christopher Saxton being the best and original mapps with many additions and corrections, London: Philip Lea, n.d. A straightforward reduced-scale imitation of Speed. Scale of 0.7 inch to 160 paces, 1:13,714.
Scale:
1:13,500
Map-maker:
Philip Lea [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
6.0 x 6.3
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Penal:
gallows, (pictorial): [Apparently occupied].
Markets and exchanges:
cross, (pictorial)
Known copies of map:
BLML C.7.c.4 [1690.c?]; LGC Map 5388 [1720: Geo Willdey]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732]; LGC 146/3/3 Atlas Folio 68 [1749: Jeffreys].
Gardens:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative: Banner.
Relief:
'molehills'
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1887-8
1:2500
1:10,560
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