Gloucestershire-Gloucester-1650 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22821

Map Date:

? 1650

Repository reference:

BL Add. MS. 11564 ('4' [recte fols 8-9])

Historic county:

Gloucestershire

Town name:

Gloucester

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO831186

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 8318

Map title:

'Plan de Glocester'.

Comments on map:

Evidently derived from Speed. 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:

1:5000*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

62.3 x 45.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, decorative

Buildings:

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

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

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

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BL Add. MS. 11564.

Gardens:

shown: [Orchard-like].

Antiquities:

White Friers.

Relief:

'molehills'

Ordnance Survey's

1881-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560