Durham-Durham-1610 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18457

Map Date:

[1610]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.c.20

Historic county:

Durham

Town name:

Durham

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NZ273421

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NZ 2742

Map title:

'Durham'.

Comments on map:

Inset on 'The bishoprick and citie of Durham'. Below the map is an historical note on the town. No reference, and no text on map, which seems to derive from S. Schwytzer's of 1595 [Exeter 22603]: suggestive more of a stylised earlier birds' eye view than anything like the best of Speed's work. No 'responsibility statements' on map.

Scale:

1:7920*

Map-maker:

[John Speed [author].]

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

14.0 x 14.5 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [the Gardner Copy: NFP] [1603-11: proof set]; BLML Maps C.7.c.20, BLML Maps C.7.c.5, BLML Maps 95.d.12(2), BOL Gough Maps Durham 4 [1610]; BOL Gough Maps 92 [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; Durham RO D/PH/104/1-2, D/XP 26, D/XP 77 [1611?]; CUL Maps.bb.30.02 [1611/1923-6: Kelly: repub in directory]; BOL G1/C17.2/4, CUL Atlas.3.95.15 [1611/1954: John Arlott (intro), Phoenix House (pub)]; BOL (E)C17:27(30) [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]; 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...]; 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 [1720.c: H. Overton]; BLML Maps 2230(21) [1740: Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...]; BOL Gough Maps Durham 17 [1743: Overton].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

'molehills'

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Cross [pictorial], pictorial bridges, including what looks like a footbridge across the river, west of the cathedral.

Arms and heraldry:

uncertain

Ordnance Survey's

1856

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560