Kent-Canterbury-1703 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21519

Map Date:

1703

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:

[At top:] 'The mapp of Canterbury.'

Comments on map:

For William Sommer, The Antiquities of Canterbury, 2nd ed, revised Nicholas Battely, London: Knaplock, 1703, f.p.1 [was reissued by in 1977]. Scale is 1 inch to just over 150 paces: 1:9000 assumed, allowing for paper shrinkage. Evidently derived from Speed: uninspiring. Reference follows Hollar [Exeter 21518]. Below city arms: 'This Plan of the City was reengraven at the Charge and by the Order of ye Right Worshipfull the Mayor Aldermen, and Common Council of this City in the Court of Burghmote A.D. 1703'.

Scale:

1:9000

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

28.7 x 18.3 [map: plate about 30 x 19.8].

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, town walls, (pictorial)

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BOL Gough Kent 13 [1640]; BOL G.A.Fol.A.336, BOL Gough Kent 46, TNA [PRO] Library, Canterbury City Library, local studies [1703]; Canterbury City Library, local studies [1977: EP Publishing; Canterbury City Library, local studies [no.9 in Simon Pratt, Maps of Canterbury c.1165 to c.1850, Canterbury Archaeological trust, June 1995, revised January 1997].

Antiquities:

Various monastic remains: pictorial.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom left: 'The Cross formerly at the Bulstake'; bottom right: 'The Cross formerly at St Dunstans'.

Relief:

shown partially: ['Dungel Hill'].

Crosses:

cross, (pictorial)

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Bulls-Stake.

Arms and heraldry:

ecclesiastical, municipal: [St Augustin's monastry].

Ordnance Survey's

1871-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560