Devonshire-Exeter-1587 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20603

Map Date:

1587

Repository reference:

West Country Studies Library, Exeter, OM B/EXE/1587/HOO/A

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Exeter

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX921924

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 9392

Map title:

'Isca Damnoniorum britanice kaier penhuelgorte: Saxonice Monketon: Latine Exoniae. Anglice Exeancestre vel Exestre at nunc vulgo Exeter: urbs peratiqua, et Emprium ceneberrimum'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from photographic version of State A, 'Photographed by W. Weaver Baker'. Scale about 1:3000 north-west to south-east, about 1:4500 north-east-south-west. More a birds eye view than a map, with pictorial bridge, etc.

Scale:

1:3600*

Map-maker:

Joannis Hokeri [author], Remigius Hogenberius [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

51.2 x 35.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences, important buildings only

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills

Water transport infrastructure:

quays: Pictorial crane on quay.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.5.a.3 ['state A']; West Country Studies Library OM B/EXE/1587/HOO/A [photocopy, 'state A']; Devon RO 4292A/BS1 ['1555/1892']; BLML Maps 1787.aa.10 [John Hooker MS, reissued Exeter: Marcus Ward & Co]; West Country Studies Library OM B/EXE/1587/HOO/B [photocopy, 'state B']; West Country Studies Library OM B/EXE/1587/HOO/C [facsim, 1975, 'state C'];

Industry:

textiles: [Tenters].

Relief:

'molehills'

Arms and heraldry:

municipal, uncertain: The uncertain one, bottom left, has motto 'Post Mortem vita'.

Ordnance Survey's

1875-6

1:500

1:2500