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Devonshire-Exeter-1610

CBTM:
18419
Map Date:
[1610]
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.7.c.20
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:
'Excester'.
Comments on map:
Inset on 'Devonshire with Excester described...'.
Scale:
1:12,500*
Map-maker:
John Speed [author], John Sudburi & George Humble, Popes Head Alleye [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
15.5 x 12.8 [inset].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
clergy residences
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
watermills
Water transport infrastructure:
quays: With crane [pictorial].
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)
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
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 [1605-10]; BOL Gough Maps 92, c.17.b.10/1 [1611]; BL G.7884, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611-12]; BOL c.17.b.13 [1611/1957: Traylen]; CUL Atlas.2.97.32 [1611/1975.c: N.T. Leslie pb [Rare Books] The English county maps of John Speed]; BOL c.15.c.16 [1611/1988: Pavilion/M.Joseph]; CUL Atlas 5.99.222 [1616/1995: reduced facsimile, as 1616/1988]; BLML Maps C.7.c.19 [1614-16]; BOL S.subt.50, CUL Atlas 4.61.1 [1616: Sudbury & Humble]; BLML Maps C7.e.13 [1627]; 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]; BLML Maps C.7.c.6 [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...]; BOL Prints b.24 [1632]; BL K.118.e.8(2) [1650-62]; 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 B.14.Jur. [1676: Bassett & Chiswrell]; BLML Maps C.7.e.5(1), Maps C.7.e.6; BLML K.1.Tab.18 [1680: Seller]; BLML Maps C.7.e.12 [1710]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL Maps C.17.b.2 [1720.c: Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...]; BLML Maps C.7.e.7 [1743]; Devon & Exeter Institution [loose copy]; RGS Eng & Wales D.132.
Antiquities:
Fryers.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Relief:
'molehills'
Commons:
shown
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Ships in river.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1875-6
1:500
1:2500
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