Durham-Durham-1689 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21137

Map Date:

? 1689

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10

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

Comments on map:

Inset on The County Palatine and Bishoppricke of Durham, discribed by CS: corrected and amended with many additions by Phil: 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. Birds-eye view as much as a map: reveals nothing of street-pattern. No text at all. [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:

1:8000*

Map-maker:

[Philip Lea [pb].].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

12.5 x 11.5 [inset: maximum].

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:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [?1689]; BOL Douce Prints b.28 [1689]; BOL Gough Maps Durham 6 [1690]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732].

Relief:

(pictorial)

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1856

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560