Cheshire-Chester-1689
CBTM:
21140
Map Date:
? 1689
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.21.e.10
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 County Palatine of Chester by C.S. corrected and amended with many additions by P. Lea, in All the shires of England and Wales described by Christopher Saxton being the best and original maps with many additions and corrections by Philip Lea, [London:] Philip Lea, n.d. Scale measured as 1 inch to 200 paces, 1:12,000. [Pasted at the front is a letter from Edward Lynam to D. Grenside, 16 November 1935, in which Lynam says it is the earliest copy he has seen and that it probably came out in the year of the licence, 1699.]
Scale:
1:12,000
Map-maker:
[Philip Lea [pb].].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
18.0-33.0 x 13.5 [inset: maximum].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
watermills
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): Gates, etc, named.
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [?1689]; BOL Douce Prints b.28 [1689]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732].
Industry:
textiles: [Fulling Mills].
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Bottom right: four Roman coins.
Relief:
(pictorial)
Crosses:
multiple crosses, (pictorial)
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Figures waving arms on Roode Eye; fishermen with net in river; boats on river; cattle in field on south-east side. Northwest of city corn is being harvested.
Arms and heraldry:
ecclesiastical, municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1871-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1898
1:2500
1:10,560
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