Dorset-Sherborne-1570 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23373

Map Date:

? 1570

Repository reference:

BL Add MS 52522, Dorset RO Photocopy 223

Historic county:

Dorset

Town name:

Sherborne

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST638164

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 6718

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy, supplemented by P.D.A. Harvey, Maps in Tudor England, London: Public Record Office, British Library, 1993, p.82, where the date is noted as c.1569-78. The map is further studied in Katherine Barker, 'An Elizabethan map od north-west Dorset: Sherborne, Yetminster and surrounding manors', in Katherine Barker & Roger Kain [eds], Maps and history in south-west England, University of Exeter Press, 1991, 28-53.

Scale:

1:10,800

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

84 x 78

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, land-use, owners

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, (pictorial)

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BL Add MS 52522 [original]; Dorset RO Photocopy 223.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Ordnance Survey's

1886

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560