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Hampshire-Southampton-1610

CBTM:
18415
Map Date:
[1610]
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.7.c.20
Historic county:
Hampshire
Town name:
Southampton
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SU425115
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SU 4513
Map title:
'Southampton'.
Comments on map:
Inset on 'Wight Island'. Scale measured as 0.95 inches to 100 paces, 1:6316.
Scale:
1:6336
Map-maker:
John Speed, Citizen of London [author], John Sudbury & G. Humbell, Popes Head Alley against the Exchange [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
14.3 x 15.2 [inset].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Water transport infrastructure:
quays
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Public buildings:
customs
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)
Markets and exchanges:
markets
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, BL G.7884, BOL Gough Maps 92, Fol BS 275, 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 Maps.bb.63.63.1 [1623]; 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...]; BLML Maps C.7.e.6 [1666]; 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...]; 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]..
Industry:
textiles: [Possible tenters].
Antiquities:
Former monastries, Gods House.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Figures apparently playing ball game on Gods House Green, Bull Hall. Pictorial shipping in sea.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland: [Salt marfhe].
Ordnance Survey's
1865-7
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1895-6
1:2500
1:10,560
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