Gloucestershire-Gloucester-1610 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18433

Map Date:

1610

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.c.20

Historic county:

Gloucestershire

Town name:

Gloucester

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO831186

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 8318

Map title:

'Glocester'.

Comments on map:

Inset on 'Glocestershire... The citie of Glocester & Bristowe discribed...'. Short written description underneath.

Scale:

1:12,672*

Map-maker:

John Speede [author], John Sudbury & George Humble, Popes Head Alley against the Exchange [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

14.7 x 17.2 [inset: maximum].

Number of parts:

1

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

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; BLML Maps 47.d.43, BOL Gl/ C17.3, RGS 14.A.109 [Pl 21 in BGL Atlas, q.v.]; Gloucester Library A1610(i), A1610(ii), A1610(iii), A1610(vi) [1610: notionally]; BOL Gough Maps Gloucestershire 3 [1610: Sudbury & Humble]; 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: Geo 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: H. Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...]; BOL Gough Maps Gloucestershire 8 [?1743: H. Overton]; BL RB.31.b.103, G.2511, BOL G.A.Glouc.4o 5 [1825: in Ed J. Washbourn jun, Bibliotheca Gloucestrensis]; BL X.709/18517, BOL G.A.Glouc. 8o 565 [1975: in J.R.S. Whiting, Gloucester besieged 1640-1660, City Museums]; BL X.809/63483 [1984: Whiting, ed 2].

Antiquities:

Monastic remains.

Commons:

shown

Crosses:

cross: [The high Crofs].

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

the Butts [sic].

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1881-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560