Kent-Dover-1661 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21383

Map Date:

[1661]

Repository reference:

BL 796.a.5

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Dover

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TR318416

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TM 3247

Map title:

'Dower. Douer.'

Comments on map:

In R. Hermannidae, Britannia Magna, Amsterdam, 1661, f.p. 302. Marked lack of text.

Scale:

1:17,500*

Map-maker:

[R. Hermannidae [author].]

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

12.8 x 10.7

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

(pictorial), Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

(pictorial), castles/forts/batteries, misc.: Guns on clifftop.

Woodland:

orchards, scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BL 796.a.5, BOL Gough Gen Top 93, CUL Syn.8.66.24.

Relief:

(pictorial), cliffs

Crosses:

(pictorial), cross

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial shipping in sea.

Towers:

tower: [Pictorial: ? Roman lighthouse].

Ordnance Survey's

1858-9

1:500

1871

1:2500

1:10,560

1881-4

1:500

1896-7

1:2500

1:10,560