Gloucestershire-Bristol-1568
CBTM:
21403
Map Date:
31.7.1568
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 29.b.44
Historic county:
Gloucestershire
Town name:
Bristol
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
ST585730
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
ST 5773
Map title:
'Bristow.'
Comments on map:
From Henry B. Wheatley and Edmund W. Ashbee, The particular description of England, 1588... by William Smith, Rouge Dragon, London: 'Printed for subscribers only', 1879, Plate XXV. Bottom left: 'Measured & laid in Platforme, By me, W. Smith, at my being at Bristowe, the 30.& 31.july Ano. Dom. 1568'.
Scale:
1:12,000*
Map-maker:
[William Smith [author].]
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
15.2 x 16.2
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, general highlighting of district, decorative: Green ground-tint.
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 29.b.44, BOL G.A.Gen.Top 4o 265, CUL [1879]; Gloucester Library; BOL R.Top.210, Bristol Library P327 (SOB), CUL P478.c.1.44, Gloucester Library, Gloucestershire RO [open access] [1927: in J.E. Pritchard, Old plans and views of Bristol, Trans Bristol & Gloucs Archgl Soc, 48, 1926 [BOL says 1922]].
Gardens:
shown
Magnetic data:
diagram: True and magnetic north are indicated: 'needle' points to the latter.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Shipping in river.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1879-82
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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