Gloucestershire-Bristol-1689 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

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