Kent-Canterbury-1610 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18416

Map Date:

[1610]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.c.20

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Canterbury

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TR151579

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TR 1562

Map title:

'Canterbury'.

Comments on map:

Inset on 'Kent with her cities and earles described and observed'. Scale measured as 1 inch to 220 paces, 1:13,200. No 'responsibility statements' on this state of map.

Scale:

1:13,200

Map-maker:

[John Speed [author].]

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

16.5 x 10.2 [inset: maximum].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative: [Session house].

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [the Gardner Copy: NFP] [1603-11: proof set]; BLML Maps C.7.c.20, BLML Maps C.7.c.5, Maps C.7.e.6, BOL Gough Maps Kent 10, BOL Gough Maps 92, Gough Maps Kent 10, BOL Fol BS 275, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; Centre for Kentish Studies 16/1943, 16/1946, 16/1947, 16/1948 [? 1611]; BOL G1/C17.2/2, CUL Atlas.3.95.15 [1611/1953: John Arlott (intro), Phoenix House (pub)]; CUL Atlas.2.97.32 [1611/1975.c: N.T. Leslie pb [Rare Books] The English county maps of John Speed]; BOL C17 b.13, CUL Atlas.2.95.6 [1614/1957: pb Guildford: Charles Traylen [dated 1955 in some lists]]; BOL Douce S.subt.50, CUL Atlas 4.61.1 [1616: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL C15 c16 = G24/C15.12 [1616/1988: Pavilion/Michael Joseph]; CUL Atlas.5.99.222 [1616/1995: reduced facsimile, as 1616/1988]; CUL Atlas.7.62.1, Atlas.7.64.4,2, Syn.7.62.91 [1627: 'described and abridged...': different typesettings]; CUL L*.7.10(A) [1627: A prospect of the most famous parts of the World...]; CUL Atlas.7.95.7 [1627/1951: E.G.R. Taylor, An atlas of Tudor England and Wales, Harmondsworth, King Penguin, 1951, 19 cm]; BOL (E)C17:36(86) [1627/1971: Kelly: repub in directory]; CUL Atlas.7.66.3,i, Atlas.7.66.4,1 [1666: England... described]; CUL Atlas.7.67.1 [1676: England... described and abridged]; CUL Atlas.4.67.7, Qq*.1.280(AA) [2 copies], Hanson.bb.43, Ely.a.188 [1676]; CUL Maps.bb.53.67.1, Maps.bb.53.67.2 [1676: different letterpress settings]; BOL Douce Prints b.24 [1627/32: Geo Humble]; CUL Atlas.4.62.2, Bury.18.2 [1631: A prospect...]; CUL Atlas.7.64.4, Atlas 7.62.2, Atlas 7.64.3 [1646: A prospect...]; CUL Atlas.7.66.3,i, Atlas.7.66.4,1 [1666: England... described]; CUL Atlas.7.67.1 [1676: England... described and abridged]; CUL Atlas.4.67.7, Qq*.1.280(AA) [2 copies], Hanson.bb.43, Ely.a.188 [1676]; CUL Maps.bb.53.67.1, Maps.bb.53.67.2 [1676: different letterpress settings]; BOL Bl.14.Jur [1676: Bassett & Chiswell]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL C17 b.2 [1720.c: H. Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...]; BOL Gough Maps Kent 26 [1743: H. Overton]; Canterbury Library [no.5 in Simon Pratt, Maps of Canterbury c.1165 to c.1850, Canterbury Archaeological trust, June 1995, revised January 1997]; Canterbury Library [copy].

Antiquities:

Former monastries.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1871-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560