Gloucestershire-Bristol-1671 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20407

Map Date:

1671

Repository reference:

BLML Maps* 5045 (4)

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:

'The famous citie of Bristoll with its suburbes'.

Comments on map:

Historical note, bottom right. According to B.L. catalogue, etc, 'I.M.' is James Millerd.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

I.M. [author], Rob. Walton [pr, coloured, sold by].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

55.7 x 43.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial: 'Gable-end' style.

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial): [Tower-mill-like].

Water transport infrastructure:

quays: Anchors, staffage: numerous large pictorial ships by 'Kay' and in river.

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: The Pump.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial): Large, a bit ramshackle.

Public buildings:

customs

Defence and military:

town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps* 5045(4), BOL Gough Maps Gloucestershire 4, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.II, part IV, B.I, part VII, Bristol Library 17813, Gloucester Library; BLML Maps* 5045(3) [mutilated]; Bristol Library B.20219/20, B.23550, B.31487[1670-1: facsimiles of various dates & sizes]; BOL Gough Maps Gloucestershire 17 [incomplete], CUL Maps.aa.19.G.124 [1673]; B.21862, B.26134/5, B.26195 [1673: facsimiles of various dates & sizes]; B.23576, B.23579, B.25829-31 [1673/1952: fac printed by Waterlow]; Bristol RO [facsimile on wall: also reduced, in box]; Gloucester Library [facsimiles]; [1916 facsimile: Maps* 5045(17), 5045(18)]; [1671, 1818 facsim] BL (SPR) 26.c.1, BL P.P.6044, P.P.2508.naa; BL PP.6044, Bristol Library B.32998, BOL G.A.Glouc. 8o 143 [in the Bristol Memorialist, 1823]; BOL R.Top.210 [1922: Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, XLIV, fp.220]; 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]; [1673] BLML Maps 47.d.43, BOL Gl. C17.3, RGS 14.A.109 [facsimile in A Gloucestershire & Bristol Atlas, Bristol & Gloucester Archaeological Soc, 1961]; [1673-1710] BLML K.Top.37.32, 37.33; [1673-1922 Macbeth fac] BLML 5045(26).

Industry:

rope walk

Gardens:

shown

Miscellaneous:

Unclear what pictorial X-on-pole (2 examples in north of map) might be.

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom left: location map, 1:443,520 [if statute miles used].

Arms and heraldry:

ecclesiastical, royal arms, municipal, uncertain: Uncertain what those top right are.

Ordnance Survey's

1879-82

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560