Devonshire-Exeter-1661 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18749

Map Date:

[1661]

Repository reference:

BL 796.a.5, West Country Studies Library B/EXE/1661/HER

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:

'Exonia. Excester.'

Comments on map:

From Rutgeri Hermannidae, Britannia Magna, Amsterdam, 1661. Of Hooker/Speed/Braun & Hogenburg derivation, but truncated, e.g. only top of St Thomas's church tower appears.

Scale:

1:20,000*

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.0 x 10.5

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

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

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BL 796.a.5, BOL Gough Gen Top. 93, CUL Syn.8.66.24, NLS A.43.f.19, West Country Studies Library MM B/EXE/1661/HER.

Gardens:

shown

Relief:

'molehills'

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Crane by riverside [pictorial].

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1875-6

1:500

1:2500