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Gloucestershire-Bristol-1480

CBTM:
23271
Map Date:
? 1480
Repository reference:
BL Maps 202.dd.114
Historic county:
Gloucestershire
Town name:
Bristol
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
ST585730
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
ST 5773
Comments on map:
Recorded from version reproduced in monochrome on p.310 in R.A. Skelton and P.D.A. Harvey, Local maps and plans from mediaeval England, Oxford: Clarendon, 1986: essay on map by Elizabeth Ralph on pp 309-316. Original is in 'The Maire of Bristowe is Kalendar', f5v, Bristol Record Office 04720. Map is schematic rather than literal, and qualifies for inclusion on grounds of date.
Scale:
1:13,333*
Map-maker:
[Robert Ricart [author]].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
12.2 x 14.7
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial): Buildings with crosses.
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town walls, (pictorial): Conspicuous.
Known copies of map:
Bristol Record Office 04720, fo.5b [original]; BLML Maps 5045(21) [1821 facsim]; BOL K.6.1 = U.R.R. [1872: Camden Soc.]; BL 10358.l.5, BOL G.A. Glouc. 4o 54 [1881: W.George & Son [pb], in Some account of the oldest plans of Bristol]; Bristol Library B.H.Lib.912.42 [1986: in R.A. Skelton & P.D.A. Harvey, Local maps and plans of mediaeval England, OUP, 1986].
Crosses:
cross, (pictorial)
Ordnance Survey's
1879-82
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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