Derbyshire-Derby-1689 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21139

Map Date:

? 1689

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10

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:

'Darbie.'

Comments on map:

Inset on An exact map of Darbieshire corrected and amended with 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 1.12 inches to 200 paces, 1:10,715. [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:

1:10,715

Map-maker:

[Philip Lea [pb].]

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

12.2 x 9.5-24.2 [inset: reference to right].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Sanitary and utility information:

conduits: One only.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

cock-fighting

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [?1689]; BOL Douce prints b.28 [1689]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732].

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground: Includes a circular area with a deer.

Crosses:

multiple crosses, (pictorial)

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Figure with pole or staff to north-west of town.

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds: [Pinfolde].

Miscellaneous religious group:

Former monastries.

Ordnance Survey's

1881-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560