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Gloucestershire-Bristol-1610

CBTM:
18434
Map Date:
1610
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.7.c.20
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:
'Bristow'.
Comments on map:
Inset on 'Gloucestershire... The citie of Glocester & Bristowe discribed...'. Rather crude by Speed's best standards. Shortish written description alongside.
Scale:
1:15,840*
Map-maker:
John Speede [author], John Sudbury & George Humble, Popes Head Alley against the Exchange [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
18.7 x 14.0 [inset: maximum].
Number of parts:
1
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:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [the Gardner Copy: NFP] [1603-11: proof set]; BLML Maps C.7.c.20, BLML Maps C.7.c.5; CUL; RGS Eng & Wales D.23; BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] B.I, part VII, Gough Maps Gloucestershire 3 [1610]; Bristol RO ['1610': facsimile]; Gloucester Library A1610(i), A1610(ii), A1610(iii), A1610(vi) [1610: notionally]; BOL Gough Maps 92, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL G1/C17.2/1, CUL Atlas.3.95.15 [1611/1953: John Arlott (intro), Phoenix House (pub)]; CUL Atlas.2.97.32 [1611/1975.c: N.T. Leslie pb [Rare Books] The English county maps of John Speed]; BOL C17 b.13, CUL Atlas.2.95.6 [1614/1957: pb Guildford: Charles Traylen [dated 1955 in some lists]]; BOL Douce S subt. 50, CUL Atlas 4.61.1 [1616: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL C15 c16 = G24 C15.12 [1616/1988: Pavilion/Michael Joseph]; CUL Atlas 5.99.222 [1616/1995: reduced facsimile, as 1616/1988]; CUL Atlas.7.62.1, Atlas.7.64.4,2, Syn.7.62.91 [1627: 'described and abridged...': different typesettings]; CUL L*.7.10(A) [1627: A prospect of the most famous parts of the World...]; CUL Atlas.7.95.7 [1627/1951: E.G.R. Taylor, An atlas of Tudor England and Wales, Harmondsworth, King Penguin, 1951, 19 cm]; BOL Douce Prints b.24 [1627/32: George Humble]; CUL Atlas.4.62.2, Bury.18.2 [1631: A prospect...]; CUL Atlas.7.64.4, Atlas 7.62.2, Atlas 7.64.3 [1646: A prospect...]; CUL Atlas.7.66.3,i, Atlas.7.66.4,1 [1666: England... described]; CUL Atlas.7.67.1 [1676: England... described and abridged]; CUL Atlas.4.67.7, Qq*.1.280(AA) [2 copies], Hanson.bb.43, Ely.a.188 [1676]; CUL Maps.bb.53.67.1, Maps.bb.53.67.2 [1676: different letterpress settings]; BOL Bl.14.Jur [1676: Bassett & Chiswell]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL C17 b.2 [1720.c: Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...]; BOL Gough Maps Gloucestershire 8 [Overton]; BL 579.h.10, 192.b.18, G.4073, C.55.k.1, C.60.m.2(1), BOL Gough Somerset 14 [1789: in W.Barrett, a history of Bristol]; BOL G.A.Glouc.4o 312 [1789/1982: Barrett/Alan Sutton reissue]; 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 & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 48, 1926]; Bristol Library B.21487, B.31488 [facsimiles].
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Ships in river.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland
Ordnance Survey's
1879-82
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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