Devonshire-Exeter-1689
CBTM:
21160
Map Date:
? 1689
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.21.e.10
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 Devon:shire described by C: Saxon [sic]. Corrected, amended, and many additions by P. Lea., in All the shires of England and Wales described by Christopher Saxton being the best and original maps with many additions and corrections by Philip Lea, [London:] Philip Lea, n.d. Usual Hooker-Speed mapping. [Pasted at the front is a letter from Edward Lynam to D. Grenside, 16 November 1935, in which Lynam says it is the earliest copy he has seen and that it probably came out in the year of the licence, 1699.]
Scale:
1:15,840*
Map-maker:
[Philip Lea [pb].].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
13.0 x 11.3-15.5 [inset: maximum]..
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
clergy residences, important buildings only
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
watermills
Water transport infrastructure:
quays, misc: Pictorial crane.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): Named gates.
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, orchards
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [?1689]; BOL Douce Prints b.28 [1689]; BOL Gough Maps Devonshire 2 [1690/1720: reissued by G. Willdey]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732].
Industry:
textiles: [Evident from pictorial tenters].
Gardens:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Relief:
'molehills'
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial shipping on river.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Miscellaneous religious group:
Frayers.
Ordnance Survey's
1875-6
1:500
1:2500
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