Dorset-Dorchester-1689 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21163

Map Date:

? 1689

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Dorchester

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SY690706

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SY 7192

Map title:

'Dorchester'.

Comments on map:

Inset on A true description of Dorsetshire by, CS, corrected and amended with 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. Scale measured as 0.98 inch to 200 paces, 1:12,245. [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:

1:12,245

Map-maker:

[Philip Lea [pb].].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

16.0 x 13.5 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

gallows, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

town walls, (pictorial)

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]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732].

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

'molehills'

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1886

1:10,560