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Essex-Colchester-1610

CBTM:
18424
Map Date:
1610
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.7.c.20
Historic county:
Essex
Town name:
Colchester
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TL995252
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TL 9925
Map title:
'Colchester'.
Comments on map:
Inset on 'Essex... with the most antient and fayre towne Colchester described...'. Scale measured as 1 inch to 200 paces, 1:12,000. (The original manuscript of this is in Merton College, Oxford, D.3.30, map 3, dated 27 June 1607: see Sarah Bendall, 'Draft town maps for John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine', Imago Mundi 54, 2002, 30-45 (Appendix on p.44).)
Scale:
1:12,000
Map-maker:
I. Speede [sv], Jodocus Hondius [eng], G. Humble [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
14.7 x 11.7 [inset: maximum].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
watermills
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 C.7.e.6, CUL; BOL Gough Maps 92, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL G1/C17.2/2, CUL Atlas.3.95.15 [1611/1953: John Arlott (intro), Phoenix House (pub)]; BOL (E)C17:28 (81) [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 Maps.30.02 [1627/1940.c: as Christmas card]; 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 Gough Maps Essex 3 [1676: Bassett & Chiswell]; Colchester Library [1676: photo]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL C17 b.2 [1720.c: H. Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...]; BOL Gough Maps Essex 8 [1743: H. Overton]; BOL G.A.Essex c.34 [1978: in D.Stephenson, The book of Colchester, Barracuda Books].
Antiquities:
Former monastries.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Crosses:
cross, (pictorial)
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1875
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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