Devonshire-Exeter-1677 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18307

Map Date:

[1677]

Repository reference:

Devon & Exeter Institution [hanging on wall]

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:

'A Mapp of the City of Exeter'.

Comments on map:

Reputedly by R. Marriott: from Richard Izacke, Antiquities of the City of Exeter, London: Richard Marriott, 1677. Of 'Hooker' type: scale is an approximation.

Scale:

1:12,000*

Map-maker:

R. Marriott, London [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

21.5 x 16.2

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

outside built-up area only

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial): On The Key.

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls

Known copies of map:

BL 10368.bbb.30, 577.c.28, CUL L1.16.3, Devon & Exeter Institution [framed on wall], West Country Studies Library MM B/EXE/1677/IZA [1677]; BL 579.b.13, BOL Gough Devon 5, 6 [1681]; BOL Gough Maps 44, fol.44 [?]; CUL x.13.27;

Industry:

textiles: [Tenters].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Ships and boats in river: upstream are men with nets.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1875-6

1:500

1:2500