Herefordshire-Hereford-1689 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21144

Map Date:

? 1689

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10

Historic county:

Herefordshire

Town name:

Hereford

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO510400

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 5140

Map title:

'...Hereford...'

Comments on map:

Inset on The county of Hereford resurveyed & enlarged A.D.1665, 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. At top: 'The Scotch Army laying seige to this City of Hereford in the yeare 1644, occasioned ye demolishing of ye subburbes thereof.' Scale measured as 1.2 inches to 180 paces, 1:9000. [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:

1:9000

Map-maker:

[Philip Lea [pb].].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

10.0 x 16 [inset: maximium, including detached reference: town only 10.0 x 10.2].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Named well.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

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

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [?1689]; BOL Douce Prints b.28 [1689]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732].

Crosses:

multiple crosses, (pictorial)

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Miscellaneous religious group:

Whitefriers.

Ordnance Survey's

1884-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560