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Dorset-Sherborne-1570

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
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