Cumberland-Carlisle-1684
CBTM:
19906
Map Date:
? 1684
Repository reference:
Carlisle Public Library, Local Studies, A66
Historic county:
Cumberland
Town name:
Carlisle
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NY400460
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NY 4155
Map title:
'Carlile'.
Comments on map:
Faces title page in R.S. Ferguson (ed), The royal charters of the city of Carlisle, Carlisle, Kendal & London: C. Thurman & Sons, T. Wilson, Elliot Stock, 1894. Town mapping very skeletal, and only scrapes in on account of scale and cover. Is a transcript: text, pp 286-8, says that the original was made in 1684-5 for Lord Dartmouth, then Master-General of the Ordnance, by James Richards, and in 1894 was still in the then Lord Dartmouth's possession.
Scale:
1:3456
Map-maker:
James Richards [sv].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
50.5 x 47.5
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, decorative: Grey cartouche-trimming, etc.
Road names:
fragmentary
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Pictorial outside walls, fragmentary within.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Markets and exchanges:
cross, (pictorial), markets: [Small pictorial cross].
Known copies of map:
BL Ac.5630/2, Carlisle PL A.66 [copy in R.S. Ferguson, The Royal Charters of the City of Carlisle]; BOL R.Top.140 [in Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, XIII, 1895].
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: The title is on a banner, held by two putti. The cartouche surrounding cross-sections of walls, etc, has plumes and helm at top, and cannon, pikes, halberd, drum and other militaria surrounding it.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
On right is 'A prospect of Carlile towards the north
Symbolic elements:
Putti, plumes, helm, cannon, pikes, halberd, drum and other militaria: surrounding title and cross-sections.
Stated measuerments:
other: River depth.
Ordnance Survey's
1863-4
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1898-9
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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