Hampshire-Southampton-1560 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19854

Map Date:

? 1560

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 31.c.61, Maps 2605 (8), [Southampton University]

Historic county:

Hampshire

Town name:

Southampton

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU425115

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 4513

Comments on map:

Recorded from photographic version accompanying Edwin Welch, Southampton maps from Elizabethan times, an introduction to 24 facsimiles, City of Southampton, 1964, whence dimensions (22 x 32.5 ins: here 26.7 x 40.2 cm). In colour, but details not very clear: however, even this is vastly superior to the monochrome photo, BLML Maps 2605 (8).

Scale:

1:5000*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

56 x 83

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, general highlighting of district, other: Multi-colour buildings, land-tint and ships.

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Known copies of map:

Southampton Museum [original]; BLML Maps 2605(8) [OS photo, 1925]; BLML Maps 31.c.61, BOL C17:70 Southampton a.1 [maps], G8/C17.52 [text], CUL Maps.aa.63.96.1 [maps], S696.c.96.73 [introduction], Hampshire RO B1876 Shelf 10, RGS 1.A.185, Southampton RO [1964: in Edwin Welch, Southampton maps from Elizabethan times, an introduction to 24 facsimiles, 1550-1945, Southampton Record Series, IX, City of Southampton Library, 1964].

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial shipping in estuary.

Ordnance Survey's

1865-7

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1895-6

1:2500

1:10,560