Lancashire-Lancaster-1617 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18469

Map Date:

1617

Repository reference:

[University of Exeter collection]

Historic county:

Lancashire

Town name:

Lancaster

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SD476618

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SD 4662

Map title:

'Lancaster'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from World Books (Cleveland & New York)/R.A. Skelton edition, 1966. In Braun & Hogenburg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Book VI, 2 (York, Lancaster and Shrewsbury (also view of Richmond Palace [Surrey] all on one plate, flanked by ancient and modern costumes). All text is in English. Scale measured as 1.42 inches to 200 paces, 1:8450.

Scale:

1:8450

Map-maker:

[Braun & Hogenburg [pb].]

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

16.5 x 12.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

important roads only

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.7.d.1, Maps 13.e.10, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] B.II, Part IV, CUL Maps.bb.36.61.1

Antiquities:

Monastic sites.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

'molehills'

Commons:

shown

Crosses:

multiple crosses, (pictorial)

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Ships in river. Horseman and man and woman on foot approach from the west.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds: [Pinfolde].

Ordnance Survey's

1845

1:1056

1:10,560

1890-1

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560