Cheshire-Chester-1661 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21370

Map Date:

[1661]

Repository reference:

BL 796.a.5

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. Cester.'

Comments on map:

In R. Hermannidae, Britannia Magna, Amsterdam, 1661, f.p. 176. Marked lack of text.

Scale:

1:15,840*

Map-maker:

[R. Hermannidae [author].]

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.0 x 11.0

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

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

Known copies of map:

BL 796.a.5, BOL Gough Gen Top 93, CUL Syn.8.66.24.

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: With sketchy cornucopias.

Relief:

'molehills', cliffs: [River-cliffs].

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial cross and ? net-mending on The Roode Eye, harvesting to north of town, men drying nets to south-west, animals in fields to south-east. Pictorial boats and sailing barges in river.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1871-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560