Cheshire-Chester-1550 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19722

Map Date:

? 1550

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 186.h.2(60)

Historic county:

Cheshire

Town name:

Chester

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ405665

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 4166

Comments on map:

'Rotograph' copy by Office of Works, 1938, from original at Hatfield House. Dating from annotated BLML list. Chester and River Dee: cross-roads arrangement is clear, but otherwise the city is rather conventionalised. Scale is approximate. No evidence of whether scale of photograph is correct.

Scale:

1:15,000*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

51.0 x 31.5

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills, watermills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

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

Known copies of map:

Hatfield House, Cecil Papers [original]; BLML Maps 186.h.2(60) [photo].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial shipping and tunnel-like fishing nets, and fishermen, on foreshore.

Ordnance Survey's

1871-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560