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Derbyshire-Derby-1610

CBTM:
18448
Map Date:
[1610]
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.7.c.20
Historic county:
Derbyshire
Town name:
Derby
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SK352366
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SK 3535
Map title:
'Darbye'.
Comments on map:
Inset on 'Darbieshire described'. Scale measured as 1 inch to 170 paces, 1:10,200. Also inset is a view of the spa at Buxton, but this is really a conventional drawing, rather than even a birds eye view, never mind a map. (The original manuscript of this is in Merton College, Oxford, D.3.30, map 4, dated 25 September 1607: see Sarah Bendall, 'Draft town maps for John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine', Imago Mundi 54, 2002, 30-45 (Appendix on p.44).)
Scale:
1:10,200
Map-maker:
John Speede [sv], Jodocus Hondius [eng], John Sudbury & G. Humble, Popes Head Alley [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
14.7 x 12.0 [inset].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Sanitary and utility information:
conduits
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
cock-fighting
Known copies of map:
CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [the Gardner Copy: NFP] [1603-11: proof set]; BLML Maps C.7.c.20, BLML Maps C.7.c.5, BLML Maps 2050(5), CUL; BOL Gough Maps 92, BOL Fol BS 275, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; CUL Maps.bb.30.01 [1611/1876: Kelly: repub in directory]; CUL Maps.bb.30.02 [1611/1923-6: Kelly: repub in directory]; BOL G1/C17.2/4, CUL Atlas.3.95.15 [1611/1954: John Arlott (intro), Phoenix House (pub)]; CUL Atlas.2.97.32 [1611/1975.c: N.T. Leslie pb [Rare Books] The English county maps of John Speed]; BOL C17 b.13, CUL Atlas.2.95.6 [1614/1957: pb Guildford: Charles Traylen [dated 1955 in some lists]]; BOL Douce S subt.50, CUL Atlas 4.61.1 [1616: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL C15 c16 = G24/ C15.12 [1616/1988: Pavilion/Michael Joseph]; CUL Atlas 5.99.222 [1616/1995: reduced facsimile, as 1616/1988]; CUL Atlas.7.62.1, Atlas.7.64.4,2, Syn.7.62.91 [1627: 'described and abridged...': different typesettings]; CUL L*.7.10(A) [1627: A prospect of the most famous parts of the World...]; CUL Atlas.7.95.7 [1627/1951: E.G.R. Taylor, An atlas of Tudor England and Wales, Harmondsworth, King Penguin, 1951, 19 cm]; BOL Douce Prints b.24 [1627/32: Geo Humble]; CUL Atlas.4.62.2, Bury.18.2 [1631: A prospect...]; CUL Atlas.7.64.4, Atlas 7.62.2, Atlas 7.64.3 [1646: A prospect...]; CUL Atlas.7.66.3,i, Atlas.7.66.4,1 [1666: England... described]; CUL Atlas.7.67.1 [1676: England... described and abridged]; CUL Atlas.4.67.7, Qq*.1.280(AA) [2 copies], Hanson.bb.43, Ely.a.188 [1676]; CUL Maps.bb.53.67.1, Maps.bb.53.67.2 [1676: different letterpress settings]; BOL B1.14.Jur [1666/76: Bassett & Chiswell]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL C17 b.2 [1720.c: H. Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...]; BL 578.c.28, BOL G.A.Derby 8o 59 [1826: in Robert Simpson, History & Antiquities of Derby, I, pb G. Wilkins & Son].
Antiquities:
Monastic sites.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Animals and figures around town include what seems to be a stag in a circular enclosure to the north-east: or is this the town arms?
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
pounds/pinfolds: [Pinfold].
Ordnance Survey's
1881-2
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1899
1:2500
1:10,560
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