Cheshire-Chester-1581
CBTM:
18466
Map Date:
[1581]
Repository reference:
[University of Exeter collection]
Historic county:
Cheshire
Town name:
Chester
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SJ405665
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SJ 4166
Map title:
'Cestria (vulgo) Chester, Angliae civitas.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from World Books (Cleveland & New York)/R.A. Skelton edition, 1966. In Braun & Hogenburg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Book III, 3. Both title and text on map are in Latin. Scales of 'Bassius' (12) and 'Pedes' (15 divisions), both 5.5 cm/2.14 ins, but not figured.
Scale:
1:10,000*
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
42.0 x 32.4
Number of parts:
1
Building names:
clergy residences
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
watermills
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps C.7.d.1, Maps 13.e.10, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.I, part VI, Gough Maps 3, Fol.2; Cheshire RO PM 14/1 [facsimile]; Cheshire RO PM 14/3 [1657 original]; Cheshire RO PM 14/2 [C19 copy].
Gardens:
shown
Antiquities:
Monastic sites.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Bottom of map: apparently three male figures and dog.
Commons:
shown
Crosses:
cross, (pictorial)
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Shipping in river, which has descriptive note appended as to its dividing England and Wales. Usual animals grazing outside walls.
Arms and heraldry:
university colleges, royal arms, municipal, uncertain: [Bottom left is uncertain].
Towers:
tower: [New tower].
Ordnance Survey's
1871-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1898
1:2500
1:10,560
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