Gloucestershire-Bristol-1650 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22829

Map Date:

? 1650

Repository reference:

BL Add. MS. 11564 ('12' [recte fols 24-25])

Historic county:

Gloucestershire

Town name:

Bristol

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST585730

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 5773

Map title:

'Plan de Bristol'.

Comments on map:

Evidently derived directly from Speed and indirectly from Ricart or Smith. In a volume, untitled, of 116 manuscript 'town plans' of Europe, in which the main interest seems to be in the fortifications and buildings outside the walls, rather than in building-up within the walls. Text is in French.

Scale:

1:6000*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

61.8 x 45.8

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, decorative

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised: Omitted within walls.

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): [Gates named].

Markets and exchanges:

cross, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

BL Add. MS. 11564.

Gardens:

shown: [Orchard-like].

Antiquities:

Monastic remains.

Ordnance Survey's

1879-82

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560