Hertfordshire-Hitchin-1700 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22412

Map Date:

[1700]

Repository reference:

BL 189.f.12

Historic county:

Hertfordshire

Town name:

Hitchin

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL184294

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 2227

Map title:

'The town of Hitchin.'

Comments on map:

F.p.390-1 in Sir Henry Chauncy, The historical antiquities of Hertfordshire, London: Griffin, etc 1700. Has some elements of the birds' eye view about it.

Scale:

1:1980*

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

40.0 x 27.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Markets and exchanges:

cross, markets: Includes (presumably) maypole.

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

BL L.50/8, 1783.c.2, 189.f.12, 672.l.11, G.3914, BOL Gough Hertford 14, CUL Maps.bb.17.G.4, CUL Huntingdon.9.5, CUL R.1.34 [1700]; CUL RC.25.67 [1826: in Chauncey ed 2]; BOL G.A.Herts 4o 113/2, CUL 477.3.b.95.2 [1826/1975: reprinted Kohler & Coombes].

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Title on banner; winged female holds drape with dedication.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Three figures bottom left: one standing, one observing, one writing something. 'fo. pag. 391' to their right.

Dedicee of map:

Sir Ralph Radcliffe and other Gentlemen Inhabiters of ye Town.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

misc: Pictorial farmyard.

Ordnance Survey's

1878-9

1:528

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560