Cornwall-Falmouth-1691 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23145

Map Date:

? 1691

Repository reference:

BL Ac.1225

Historic county:

Cornwall

Town name:

Falmouth

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SW807328

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SW 8233

Comments on map:

F.p. 154 in H.M. Jeffrey, 'The early topography of Falmouth', Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, IX [pt 2] [1887], 147-59: 'Northern portion of the town of Falmouth': text, p.155, says was drawn by George Withiell in 1691. Scale seems to be graduated in feet.

Scale:

1:1500

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

21 x 19

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

BL Ac1225, CUL P479.c.26.9,2 [in Jl of the Royal Instn of Cornwall, 9,ii, 1887].

Gardens:

shown: [One only].

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Pictorial hexagonal or octagonal building by waterside.

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete

Ordnance Survey's

1877-8

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560