Essex-Harwich-1605 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21471

Map Date:

? 1605

Repository reference:

Essex RO [Colchester] T/M 281

Historic county:

Essex

Town name:

Harwich

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TM260325

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TM 2833

Map title:

'A plott and surv[damaged] Roger Drayton Gent. of his coppie and freehovld lands: lying in ... Dovercourt...'

Comments on map:

Transcript by F. Bickmore, 1855, printed by Cowell's Anastatic Press, Ipswich: no provenance for original. Manor of Dovercourt noted as alienienated from the Crown soon after 1603. Mapping of Harwich town is an incidental: up to Speed's standards. Scale not graduated; rods are presumably meant. [Details from photocopy.]

Scale:

1:3960

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

37.0 x 56.5 [area of original].

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial, public buildings emphasised

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

Colchester RO T/M 281 [photo].

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Away from town].

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial buildings by shore to east of town: one looks like a lighthouse. Pictorial shipping off town.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland, misc: Waste.

Ordnance Survey's

1861

1:2500

1874

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560