Carmarthenshire-Carmarthen-1610 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22625

Map Date:

1610

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.c.20

Historic county:

Carmarthenshire

Town name:

Carmarthen

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SN412001

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SN 4114

Map title:

'Caermarden'.

Comments on map:

Inset on 'Caermarden both shyre and towne described'. Scale measured as 1 inch to 135 paces (1:8100): 60-inch pace assumed.

Scale:

1:8100

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]:

15.8 x 11.0 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Undescribed pyramid-roof building in unnamed street going west might perhaps by a conduit.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial): With dedication.

Penal:

pillory, (pictorial)

Markets and exchanges:

cross, (pictorial): [Pictorial cross, also pillory].

Known copies of map:

CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [the Gardner Copy: NFP] [1603-11: proof set]; LGC Map 3154 [1608: Proof]; BLML Maps C.7.c.20, BLML Maps C.7.c.5; BOL Gough Maps 92, Fol. BS 275, CUL L*.7.8(AA), LGC 146/3/4 Atlas Folio 69, Folio 73 plate 5, Folio 74, Folio 75 plate 2, Folio 76 plate 46, Folio 114, Map 5184, Map 5185, Map 5186, Map 5187, Map 5188; LGC 146/3/4 Atlas Folio 71, LGC Map 3285, Map 5174, Map 5175, Map 5176 [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL C15 b.7 [1611/1970: S.R. Publishers]; 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]; LGC 5177 [1623: Humble]; LGC 146/3/4 Atlas Folio 69 [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]; LGC Map 5178, Map 5179, Map 5180 [1632: 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 5181, Map 5182 [1646: Humble]; LGC Map 5183 [1665: 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 Bl.14.Jur., LGC 28/3/5 Atlas Folio 77 [1676: Bassett & Chiswell]; CUL Atlas.4.97.7 [1676/1970: Wales... by J.E. Rawnsley, repub East Ardsley: S.R. Publishers Ltd, 1970]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL C17 b.2, M.Res 1/67 [1720.c: H. Overton]; CUL S485.a.93.9 [1939: in Sir J.E. Lloyd, A history of Carmarthenshire, Vol 2]; Carmarthen RO 2(M)Maps [uncertain: '1610'].

Industry:

textiles: [Suggested by pictorial tenters].

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

'molehills'

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial shipping in river.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Miscellaneous religious group:

Priory.

Ordnance Survey's

1885

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560