Gloucestershire-Gloucester-1689 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21158

Map Date:

? 1689

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10

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 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:

1:12,672*

Map-maker:

[Philip Lea [pb].].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

12.3 x 13.3 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

quays, misc: [Ware houfe].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

town gates, town walls, (pictorial): Named gates.

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [?1689]; BOL Douce Prints b.28 [1689]; BLML Maps C.7.c.4, RGS 1.B.1 [date?]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732].

Crosses:

cross, named, (pictorial): [High Cross].

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial boats and sailing barges on river.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Miscellaneous religious group:

Monastic sites.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

misc: Named Meads.

Ordnance Survey's

1881-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560