Kent-Hythe-1684 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21493

Map Date:

1684

Repository reference:

Centre for Kentish Studies [open access]

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Hythe

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TR161349

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TR 1937

Map title:

'A description, & map of certeine percells of land lying in... Hithe and Saltwood... belonging to an ancient Hospitall named St Johns... Surveyed, and map't (by order of the Mayer, and Iurates of ye sd. porte of Hithe) by Tho: Hill sworne surveyer in Cant. 1684.'

Comments on map:

Good half-tone reduced copy, possibly about a third of original size. f.p. 259 of G.M. Livett, 'West Hythe church and the sites of churches formerly existing at Hythe', Archaeologia Cantiana 30 (1914), 251-62, where (257) it appears that it was then in the hands of the vicar of Hythe.

Scale:

1:7920

Map-maker:

Tho. Hill [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

58.5 x 47.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, estate, decorative

Road names:

partly: Two only.

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries: ['Forte': four cannon in line].

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

CUL T540.c.4.31, Centre for Kentish Studies [open access] [1914: in Archaeologia Cantiana, 30]; East Kent Archives TR 2 [copy: 1776.c].

Industry:

textiles

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Face at top.

Borders:

decorative

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Horsemen riding along roads out of town. Dividers above scales, which are drawn across globe.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Ordnance Survey's

1871

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560