Devonshire-Dartmouth-1619 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19878

Map Date:

? 1619

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 2140 (28)

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Dartmouth

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

SX878514

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 8956

Comments on map:

Photograph: central part of town. Attached is a carbon copy of a note by Percy Russell, Hon. Curator, Dartmouth Borough Museum, February 1950, noting that the original is 22.5 x 17 inches, and is almost certainly that drawn by Nicholas Townsend in 1619, the entry in the accounts of Andrew Wakelan, Reciever of the Borough, reading: 'Payd Nicholas Townsend for Gilding the Towns Armes over the Church Porch, for working the tables of arms in the church, and on the drawing of new plates for the towne

Scale:

1:1250

Map-maker:

? Nicholas Townsend

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

57 x 43

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, other: 'Fully-coloured' effect.

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

misc: Pictorial crane on quayside.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial): With tower.

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 2140 (28) [reduced photo of original in Dartmouth museum].

Waterbodies:

shown

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial ships in estuary.

Ordnance Survey's

1885

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560