Devonshire-Exeter-1650 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22835

Map Date:

? 1650

Repository reference:

BL Add. MS. 11564 ('18' [recte fols 37-38])

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Exeter

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX921924

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 9392

Map title:

'Excester.'

Comments on map:

Evidently derived directly from Speed and thus indirectly from Hooker. In a volume, untitled, of 116 manuscript 'town plans' of Europe, in which the main interest seems to be in the fortifications and buildings outside the walls, rather than in building-up within the walls. Text is in French.

Scale:

1:5000*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

62.3 x 45.7

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, decorative

Building names:

important buildings only: ['Maison de Bedford'].

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

quays, misc: Pictorial structure [crane] on quay.

Places of Worship:

principal Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): [Gates named].

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BL Add. MS. 11564.

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

'molehills'

Geodetic notes:

Copying-squares clearly apparent.

Ordnance Survey's

1875-6

1:500

1:2500