City of London-London-1633 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18480

Map Date:

1633

Repository reference:

BOL Gough Maps London 5

Historic county:

City of London

Town name:

London, Westminster

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ320811

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3181

Map title:

'the Cittie of London.'

Comments on map:

Record is of a version which is unrecorded in Darlington and Howgego: the main part, with decorative border, corresponds to DH9(2), i.e. c.1645, but is without the text round the sides; added on west is an extension, covering Westminster, the engraving of which is not very refined, but which is rather fresher-looking than the 'main' plate (including some residual guide-lines for names). Globe Theatre, ? another theatre in Southwark, etc, have to be inferred from nature of buildings rather than from text, which is largely confined to street names and names of stairs, etc, along the Thames.

Scale:

1:10,560*

Map-maker:

[Cornelius Dankerts [author].]

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

45.5 x 36.3 [main map], 33.5 x 39.8 [west extension].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

river stairs

Sanitary and utility information:

conduits: [Numerous conduits (with text)].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Penal:

misc: Table-like object on Tower Hill [presumably the scaffold].

Defence and military:

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

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets: [Royal Exchange: pictorial, no text].

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

DH.9. BL Crace Port I.(31) [DH9(1)];

Antiquities:

Former monastic sites.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Commons:

shown

Borders:

decorative

Crosses:

multiple crosses, (pictorial): [Numerous].

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Hickes hall [near Smithfield].

Arms and heraldry:

royal arms, municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1868-1876

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1894-7

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1848-51

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey