Hertfordshire-St Albans-1634 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19357

Map Date:

1634

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 2905 5)

Historic county:

Hertfordshire

Town name:

St Albans

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL144071

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 1506

Map title:

'A true and perfect delineation of the borough & corporation of the town of St Albans. Topographically described according to the limmits & bounds granted by King Edward the third & now newly set forth Anno Domini 1634.'

Comments on map:

Transcript, reputedly of 1906, of an original then in private hands in St Albans.

Scale:

1:1980

Map-maker:

Benjn. Agutter [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

84 x 118

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Penal:

jails/reformatories, pillory, (pictorial): [Pillory is in market place].

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds: [Bowling Green].

Woodland:

orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough: [With a written description].

Known copies of map:

Hertford RO MM13-14 3/PC1/5 [1798: Thomas Godman]; BOL (E)C17:70 St Albans (11) [1900: pb St Albans & Herts Architectl & Archaeolog Soc; pamphlet by C. Wilson at Per G.A.Herts 4o 39]; BLML Maps 2905(5) [1906 repro]; TNA [PRO] Library [transcribed version in William Page, ed., The Victoria History of Hertfordshire, II, London: Constable, 1908, f.p. 470, 36 x 27 cm.]; Hertford RO MM 25 [3/11] [Agutter/Hare].

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

Verulam, monastic ruins.

Waterbodies:

shown

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

cow-keeping

Garden and park buildings:

misc: Dove Houses.

Ordnance Survey's

1877-8

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560