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Kent-Rochester-1610

CBTM:
18417
Map Date:
[1610]
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.7.c.20
Historic county:
Kent
Town name:
Rochester
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ742686
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 7569
Map title:
'Rochester'.
Comments on map:
Inset on 'Kent with her cities and earles described and observed'. More of a birds eye view than a map. No 'responsibility statements' on this state of map.
Scale:
1:10,000*
Map-maker:
[John Speed [author].]
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
10.2 x 8.7 [inset].
Number of parts:
1
Building names:
clergy residences
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
watermills
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [the Gardner Copy: NFP] [1603-11: proof set]; BLML Maps C.7.c.20, BLML Maps C.7.c.5 [1610];CUL Views.bbb.4,2; BOL Gough Maps 92, Gough Maps Kent 10, Fol.BS 275, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL G1/C17.2/2, CUL Atlas.3.95.15 [1611/1953: John Arlott (intro), Phoenix House (pub)]; CUL Atlas.2.97.32 [1611/1975.c: N.T. Leslie pb [Rare Books] The English county maps of John Speed]; BOL C17 b.13, CUL Atlas.2.95.6 [1614/1957: pb Guildford: Charles Traylen [dated 1955 in some lists]]; BOL Douce S subt.50, CUL Atlas 4.61.1 [1616: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL C15 c16=G24/C15.12 [1616/1988: Pavilion/Michael Joseph]; CUL Atlas.5.99.222 [1616/1995: reduced facsimile, as 1616/1988]; CUL Atlas.7.62.1, Atlas.7.64.4,2, Syn.7.62.91 [1627: 'described and abridged...': different typesettings]; CUL L*.7.10(A) [1627: A prospect of the most famous parts of the World...]; CUL Atlas.7.95.7 [1627/1951: E.G.R. Taylor, An atlas of Tudor England and Wales, Harmondsworth, King Penguin, 1951, 19 cm]; BOL (E)C17:36(86) [1627/1971: Kelly: repub in directory]; BOL Douce Prints b.24 [1627/32: Geo Humble]; CUL Atlas.4.62.2, Bury.18.2 [1631: A prospect...]; CUL Atlas.7.64.4, Atlas 7.62.2, Atlas 7.64.3 [1646: A prospect...]; BLML Maps C.7.e.6 [1666]; CUL Atlas.7.66.3,i, Atlas.7.66.4,1 [1666: England... described]; CUL Atlas.7.67.1 [1676: England... described and abridged]; CUL Atlas.4.67.7, Qq*.1.280(AA) [2 copies], Hanson.bb.43, Ely.a.188 [1676]; CUL Maps.bb.53.67.1, Maps.bb.53.67.2 [1676: different letterpress settings]; BOL Bl.14.Jur [1676: Bassett & Chiswell]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL C17 b.2, M.Res 1/44 [1720.c: H. Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...]; BOL Gough Maps 26 [1743: Overton].
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Several large ships in river.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland
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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