Gloucestershire-Bristol-1581 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18465

Map Date:

[1581]

Repository reference:

[University of Exeter collection]

Historic county:

Gloucestershire

Town name:

Bristol

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST585730

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 5773

Map title:

(1) [top centre:] 'Brightstowe', [above reference:] 'Brightstovve, vulgo; quondam venta, florestiffimum Angliae Emporium.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from World Books (Cleveland & New York)/R.A. Skelton edition, 1966. In Braun & Hogenburg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Book III, 2. Titles in Latin: reference and map proper in English.

Scale:

1:5000*

Map-maker:

[Braun & Hogenburg [pb].]

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

44.1 x 34.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.7.d.1, Maps 12.e.10; BLML Maps 47.d.43; BOL Gough Maps 29, Fol 4; BL 10358.l.5, BOL G.A. Glouc. 4o 54 [1881: W.George & Son [pb], in Some account of the oldest plans of Bristol]; BOL R.Top.210, CUL P478.c.1.44, Gloucester Library, Gloucestershire RO [open access] [1927: in J.E. Pritchard, Old plans and views of Bristol, Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucester Archaeological Soc, vol 48, 1926]; BOL Gl. C17.3, RGS 14.A.109 [facsimile in A Gloucestershire & Bristol Atlas, Bristol & Gloucester Archaeological Society, 1961]; Bristol Library B.23554, B.23573 [? facsimiles]; Bristol RO [facsimile]; BOL C1 c 16 [1991: Studio Editions].

Gardens:

shown

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

bottom left: two men and a woman, very similar to Cambridge [Exeter 18463].

Crosses:

cross, (pictorial)

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Usual grazing animals outside built-up part: only two sailing barges in river.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Towers:

tower: ['The Temple'].

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Ordnance Survey's

1879-82

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560