Kent-Rochester-1588
CBTM:
21400
Map Date:
[1588]
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 29.b.44
Historic county:
Kent
Town name:
Rochester
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ742686
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 7569
Map title:
'Rochester.'
Comments on map:
From Henry B. Wheatley and Edmund W. Ashbee, The particular description of England, 1588... by William Smith, Rouge Dragon, London: 'Printed for subscribers only', 1879, Plate XIX.
Scale:
1:25,344*
Map-maker:
[William Smith [author].]
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
14.7 x 15.7
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, general highlighting of district, decorative: Green ground-tint.
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Known copies of map:
BL C.55.g.2 [1588/1817: in History & antiquities of Rochester, ed 2, 1817, p.12], BLML Maps 29.b.44. BOL G.A.Gen/Top.4o 265.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Shipping in river.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1861-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1885
1:500
1895-6
1:2500
1:10,560
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