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Huntingdonshire-Huntingdon-1689

CBTM:
21153
Map Date:
? 1689
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.21.e.10
Historic county:
Huntingdonshire
Town name:
Huntingdon
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TL238718
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TL 2370
Map title:
'Hvntingdon'.
Comments on map:
Inset on The County of Northampton together wth ye three small Counties of Bedford Hvntingdon & Rvtland exactly drawn by one scale by CS, corrected & amended with many additions by P. Lea, 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. [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:
1:8000*
Map-maker:
[Philip Lea [pb].].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
12.0 x 8.8 [inset].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, incomplete Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
gallows, jails/reformatories, (pictorial): [Pictorial gallows on hill].
Education and academic:
schools
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds: [The Bouling place].
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [?1689]; BOL Douce Prints b.28 [1689]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732].
Gardens:
shown
Relief:
'molehills'
Crosses:
multiple crosses, (pictorial)
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
Bolme Holle.
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Man with staff on north; animals in field on north-east; man doing something with animal, and man possibly sowing, on south-east.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1884
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1900
1:2500
1:10,560
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