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Gloucestershire-Bristol-1689

CBTM:
21157
Map Date:
? 1689
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.21.e.10
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:
'Brestoll'.
Comments on map:
Inset on Glocester-shire described by C.S. corrected and amended with many additions by P. Lea, in All the shires of England and Wales described by Christopher Saxton being the best and original maps with many additions and corrections by Philip Lea, [London:] Philip Lea, n.d. [Pasted at the front is a letter from Edward Lynam to D. Grenside, 16 November 1935, in which Lynam says it is the earliest copy he has seen and that it probably came out in the year of the licence, 1699.]
Scale:
1:15,840*
Map-maker:
[Philip Lea [pb].].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
15.8 x 13.3 [inset: maximum].
Number of parts:
1
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): Named gates.
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [?1689]; BOL Douce Prints b.28 [1689]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732].
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1879-82
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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