Cheshire-Chester-1610 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18452

Map Date:

[1610]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.c.20

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:

'Chester'.

Comments on map:

Inset on 'The countye palatine of Chester with that most ancient citie described'. Scale measured as 0.96 inch to 200 paces, 1:12,500.

Scale:

1:12,500

Map-maker:

John Speed, assisted by William Smith [authors], John Sudbury & George Humble, Popes Head Alley against the Exchange [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

30.5 x 16.2 [inset: maximum: inverted 'Jacobean Arch' effect at bottom].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

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

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [the Gardner Copy: NFP] [1603-11: proof set]; BLML Maps C.7.c.20, BLML Maps C.7.c.5, CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [1610]; BOL Gough Maps 92, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL C17.a.1, CUL Maps.bb.36.93.1 [1611/1932: RGS]; BOL G1/C17.2/4, CUL Atlas.3.95.15 [1611/1954: John Arlott (intro), Phoenix House (pub)]; CUL Atlas.2.97.32 [1611/1975.c: N.T. Leslie pb [Rare Books] The English county maps of John Speed]; BOL C17 b.13, CUL Atlas.2.95.6 [1614/1957: pb Guildford: Charles Traylen [dated 1955 in some lists]]; BOL Douce S subt.50, CUL Atlas 4.61.1 [1616: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL C15 c.16 = G24/ C15.12 [1616/1988: Pavilion/Michael Joseph]; CUL Atlas 5.99.222 [1616/1995: reduced facsimile, as 1616/1988]; 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: Geo Humble]; CUL Maps.30.02 [1627/1940.c: as Christmas card]; 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...]; 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 [1676: Bassett & Chiswell]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL C17 b.2 [1720.c: H. Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...]; BLML Maps C.2.cc.2(5) [1947 reproduction].

Industry:

misc: Fulling Mills.

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Commons:

shown

Crosses:

cross, (pictorial)

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Large staffage of a few humans and numerous animals outside built-up area: includes harvesting.

Arms and heraldry:

ecclesiastical, municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1871-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560