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Kent-Canterbury-1663

CBTM:
21518
Map Date:
? 1663
Repository reference:
Canterbury City Library, local studies
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:
TR1562
Map title:
'The groundplott of Canterbury.'
Comments on map:
Reputedly by Hollar: dated 1663 here, 1670 by Pratt, 1650 in Bodleian catalogue. Scale about 1 in to 150 'Geometricall Paces', which if of 60 inches equals 1:9000, which looks about right.
Scale:
1:9000
Map-maker:
[? W. Hollar [author].]
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
27.5 x 17.8
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
clergy residences
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial, public buildings emphasised
Mills:
watermills
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Named well.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, (pictorial), town walls
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
BOL Gough Maps 13, Fol 13, Gough Maps 41C, Fol 32, and Fol 33, Gough Maps 45, Fol 107, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] Lar. Vol. IV (Topographical) [1720-40.c, Henry Overton]; Canterbury City Library, local studies; Canterbury Library [no.7 in Simon Pratt, Maps of Canterbury c.1165 to c.1850, Canterbury Archaeological trust, June 1995, revised January 1997].
Gardens:
shown
Antiquities:
Various monastic establishments, with pictorial ruins.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Relief:
(pictorial)
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
Bullstake [pictorial].
Ordnance Survey's
1871-2
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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