Devonshire-Exeter-1709 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18305

Map Date:

1709

Repository reference:

Devon & Exeter Institution (map chest)

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 True Plan of the City of Exeter'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy. To left and right of border are sun and stars, and columns with notes that St Peters church was founded by King Athelstan AD 932, 437 years building, and 'Urb. Condit. Anno Mundi 2855 Ant Christ 3300'.

Scale:

1:2880

Map-maker:

Ichd Fairlove [sv], Io Coles [eng], Edward Score Bookseller over agst the Guild-hall [sold by].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

43.0 x 55.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Bishops palace pictorial.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

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

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML 2133 (6), CUL Maps bb.58.70.1, West Country Studies Library OM B/EXE/1709/COL; Devon & Exeter Institution (map chest) [apparently good C20 transcript];

Industry:

textiles: [Tenters].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Views in border at corners of cathedral, guildhall, workhouse and custom house.

Borders:

decorative

Symbolic elements:

Dividers, globes, masks, etc round dedication.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Ship in river.

Arms and heraldry:

ecclesiastical, municipal

Dedicee of map:

Caleb Lowman, surgeon of the city.

Ordnance Survey's

1875-6

1:500

1:2500