Kent-Rochester-1650 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22842

Map Date:

? 1650

Repository reference:

BL Add. MS. 11564 ('25' [recte fols 50-51])

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Rochester

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ742686

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 7569

Map title:

'Plan de Rochestre.'

Comments on map:

Evidently derived directly from Speed, and presumably indirectly from William Smith. In a volume, untitled, of 116 manuscript 'town plans' of Europe, in which the main interest seems to be in the fortifications and buildings outside the walls, rather than in building-up within the walls. Text is in French.

Scale:

1:3000*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

56.2 x 40.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, decorative

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): [Gates named].

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BL Add. MS. 11564.

Gardens:

shown: [Not many].

Relief:

'molehills'

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial shipping in river.

Ordnance Survey's

1861-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1885

1:500

1895-6

1:2500

1:10,560