Carmarthenshire-Carmarthen-1690 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22659

Map Date:

? 1690

Repository reference:

BLML C.7.c.4

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:

'Carmarthen'.

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 0.44 inch to 160 paces, 1:21,818.

Scale:

1:21,120

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

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

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

Antiquities:

Priory.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Banner.

Relief:

'molehills'

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial shipping in river.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1885

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560