Dorset-Poole-1640 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20526

Map Date:

? 1640

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 2195 (11)

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Poole

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SZ011906

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SZ 0593

Comments on map:

Found with the correspondence of Charles I at Pythouse, photographed by Ordnance Survey (ref A.O. 234) when in the possession of Col Benett-Stratford, Pyt House, Tisbury, Wilts [sic]: Catalogue of photographs of old cadastral and other plans of Great Britain, Southampton: Ordnance Survey, 1935, says original scale was 1:4693, reduced to 1:5000 in photo: dimensions compensated. Reference to streets and buildings transcribed in letterpress and town arms added, neither evidently by Ordnance Survey.

Scale:

1:4752*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

40 x 30

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

town gates

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 2195(11) [photo, 1935], Poole LHC [photos]; [Poole LHC say original may be at Wilts RO].

Ordnance Survey's

1886

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560