Essex-Colchester-1650 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22838

Map Date:

? 1650

Repository reference:

BL Add. MS. 11564 ('21' [recte fols 42-43])

Historic county:

Essex

Town name:

Colchester

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL995252

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 9925

Map title:

'Plan de Colchester.'

Comments on map:

Evidently derived from Speed. In a volume, untitled, of 116 manuscript 'town plans' of Europe, in which the main interest seems to be in the fortifications and buildings outside the walls, rather than in building-up within the walls. Text is in French. Scale measured as 1 inch to 80 'pas' (1:4800 if a 60-inch pace is used).

Scale:

1:4800

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

55.8 x 40.7

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, decorative

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised: Omitted within walls.

Mills:

watermills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): [Some gates named].

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BL Add. MS. 11564 ('21' [recte fols 42-43]) [Exeter 22838], Colchester Library Local Studies [photo] [Exeter 20519].

Gardens:

shown: [Orchard-like].

Antiquities:

Monastic remains.

Relief:

'molehills'

Ordnance Survey's

1875

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560