Devonshire-Cullompton-1633 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23395

Map Date:

1633

Repository reference:

Somerset RO DD/WY

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Cullompton

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST021072

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 0105

Map title:

'A plat & description of all the landes belonging to the Barton & Mannor of Padbrooke & Paunfford in ye parishes of Cullumpton & Bradninch in the Countye of Devon... parcell of ye possessions of ye Right Worll Sr William Couten of London Knight.'

Comments on map:

Very colourful map, of the sort which gives a misleading impression of the quality and colour of the estate-map genre: 'C'est magnifique, mais c'est e pas le cartograhie'.

Scale:

1:3960

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

115 x 76 ['bleed' edges].

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, owners, decorative

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Known copies of map:

Somerset RO DD/WY C/306 (reference at DD/WY W/SR) [original]; Devon RO, 2650Z/1(A) [photo].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Borders:

S

Symbolic elements:

Drawing instruments, globe, surveyor, draftsmen, map readers: in cartouche.

Arms and heraldry:

principal landowner.

Tenement boundaries group:

generalised/schematic

Ordnance Survey's

1887

1:2500

1:10,560