Hampshire-Winchester-1650 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22819

Map Date:

? 1650

Repository reference:

BL Add. MS. 11564 ('2' [recte fols 4-5])

Historic county:

Hampshire

Town name:

Winchester

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU482292

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 4730

Map title:

'Plan de Winchester'.

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 measured as 1 inch to 62 'pas' (1:3720 if a 60-inch pace is used).

Scale:

1:3720

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

62.0 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.

Mills:

watermills, (pictorial)

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, fo.4.v-5 [original]; Hampshire RO M10A [photo].

Gardens:

shown: [Orchard-like].

Relief:

'molehills'

Ordnance Survey's

1868-70

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1894-5

1:2500

1:10,560