Devonshire-Plymouth-1643 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18258

Map Date:

1643

Repository reference:

[Private collection]

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Devonport, Stonehouse, Plymouth

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX480540

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 4555

Map title:

'A True Mapp and description of the Towne of Plymouth and the Fortifications thereof, with the workes and approaches of the Enemy, at the last Seige, Ao. 1643'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from copy issued by West Country Studies Library and Plymouth City Library: this version has PARS CORNWALIAE in capitals. Originally for A true narration of the most observable passages, in and around the last siege of Plymouth, London, 1644. Scale bar at bottom of map, but scale seems rather flexible! Includes Saltash at top, but no useful details. No mapmaker's name on the copy recorded.

Scale:

1:33,000

Map-maker:

[Wenceslas Hollar [author].]

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

34.2 x 26.5

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Settlements by conventional grouped pictograms (Plymouth, Plympton, Saltash). Streets in town look suspiciously regular and rectangular. Larger houses shown pictorially (e.g. Mount Edgcombe), smaller not at all.

Mills:

windmills, watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Sr Francis Drakes Wr.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, misc.: Various defences: Castle, Fort [pictorial], temporary Forts (named) with flags, 'Enemy', cannons firing on [Mount Batten], ships in harbour.

Known copies of map:

BL E.31 (15), BOL Sutherland 8o(304), CUL Bb*11.611(E), Plymouth Archives Ph.322, 850/33, West Country Studies Library LM B/PLY/1643/HOL; 2 redrawn versions in Plymouth Archives folder: (1) Pars Cornwalle in l.c. italic; (2) in u.c. Roman, less hill-shading: another in Plymouth City Library [also facsimile]; [BLML Maps 2140 (5) is a facsimile of ?1840]; BL 10368.b.37, Devon & Exeter Institution [another version in R.N. Worth, History of Plymouth (Plymouth, Brendon, 1890; orig pub 1872); BL 010360.bb.65, CUL R.C. 10.1.44 [1931: redrawn extract in Charles W. Bracken, A history of Plymouth and her neighbours, Plymouth: Underhill, 1931, f.p.106]; Bodleian Library Gough Maps 5.f.9B is a MS copy [S.20]; S21 is a C19 version, Hydrographic Dept L1290 Shelf Od.]; West Country Studies Library pB/PLY 1/1643/PLY [1985: Exeter, Devon Books]

Relief:

'molehills'

Ordnance Survey's

1892-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560