Kent-Canterbury-1650
CBTM:
22844
Map Date:
? 1650
Repository reference:
BL Add. MS. 11564 ('29' [recte fols 58-59])
Historic county:
Kent
Town name:
Canterbury
Map type:
Military
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TR151519
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TR 1562
Map title:
'Plan de Cantorbery.'
Comments on map:
Evidently derived from Speed. In a volume, untitled, of 116 manuscript 'town plans' of Europe, in which the main interest seems to be in the fortifications and buildings outside the walls, rather than in building-up within the walls. Text is in French. Scale measured as 1 inch to 78 'pas' (1:4680 if a 60-inch pace is used).
Scale:
1:4680
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
62.5 x 45.7
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, land-use, decorative
Building names:
clergy residences
Buildings:
some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised
Mills:
watermills, (pictorial)
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: 'Dungelhill'.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Penal:
gallows, jails/reformatories, (pictorial): [Unoccupied].
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): [Some gates named].
Known copies of map:
BL Add. MS. 11564.
Antiquities:
Monastic remains.
Relief:
'molehills': [For gallows and dinghill].
Ordnance Survey's
1871-2
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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