Dorset-Dorchester-1610 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18418

Map Date:

1610

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.c.20

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Dorchester

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SY690906

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 1433

Map title:

'Dorchester'.

Comments on map:

Inset on 'Dorsetshyre with the shyre-towne Dorchester described...'. Scale measured as 1.0 inch to 100 paces, 1:6000. (The original manuscript of this is in Merton College, Oxford, D.3.30, map 6, dated 20 August 1606: see Sarah Bendall, 'Draft town maps for John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine', Imago Mundi 54, 2002, 30-45 (Appendix on p.44).) The engraver's name is the only 'responsibility statement' in this state.

Scale:

1:6000

Map-maker:

[John Speed [sv]], Jodocus Hondius [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

16.5 x 13.5 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

important roads only

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [the Gardner Copy: NFP] [1603-11: proof set]; CUL Maps.bb.59.60.1 [proof]; BLML Maps C.7.c.20, BLML Maps C.7.c.5, CUL; BOL Gough Maps 92, Fol BS 275, C17 b.1, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL G1/C17.2/1, CUL Atlas.3.95.15 [1611/1953: John Arlott (intro), Phoenix House (pub)]; BOL (E)c17:26(33) [1611/1971: Kelly: repub in directory]; CUL Atlas.2.97.32 [1611/1975.c: N.T. Leslie pb [Rare Books] The English county maps of John Speed]; BL X.805/2077, BOL G.A.Dorset 4o 138 [1611/1981: in B.Adlam, The book of Dorchester, Barracuda Books]; BOL C17 b.13, CUL Atlas.2.95.6 [1614/1957: pb Guildford: Charles Traylen [dated 1955 in some lists]]; BOL Douce S. subt. 50, CUL Atlas 4.61.1 [1616: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL C15 c16 = G24/ C15.12 [1616/1988: Pavilion/Michael Joseph]; CUL Atlas 5.99.222 [1616/1995: reduced facsimile, as 1616/1988]; CUL Atlas.7.62.1, Atlas.7.64.4,2, Syn.7.62.91 [1627: 'described and abridged...': different typesettings]; CUL L*.7.10(A) [1627: A prospect of the most famous parts of the World...]; CUL Atlas.7.95.7 [1627/1951: E.G.R. Taylor, An atlas of Tudor England and Wales, Harmondsworth, King Penguin, 1951, 19 cm]; BOL Douce Prints b.24 [1627/32: Geo Humble]; CUL Atlas.4.62.2, Bury.18.2 [1631: A prospect...]; CUL Atlas.7.64.4, Atlas 7.62.2, Atlas 7.64.3 [1646: A prospect...]; BOL Gough Maps Dorset 3, Dorset RO M.15 [1662: Rea]; CUL Atlas.7.66.3,i, Atlas.7.66.4,1 [1666: England... described]; CUL Atlas.7.67.1 [1676: England... described and abridged]; CUL Atlas.4.67.7, Qq*.1.280(AA) [2 copies], Hanson.bb.43, Ely.a.188 [1676]; CUL Maps.bb.53.67.1, Maps.bb.53.67.2 [1676: different letterpress settings]; BOL Bl.14.Jur [1676: Bassett & Chiswell]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL C17 b.2, M.Res 1/52 [1720.c: Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...].

Gardens:

shown: Orchard-like.

Antiquities:

'The ruins of the ould wall'.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

'molehills'

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Apparent cross and pillory [pictorial]. Dividers above scale.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1886

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