Lancashire-Lancaster-1689 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21138

Map Date:

? 1689

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10

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 towne & Castle'.

Comments on map:

Inset on The County Pallatine of Lancaster discribed by P. Lea, in All the shires of England and Wales described by Christopher Saxton being the best and original maps with many additions and corrections by Philip Lea, [London:] Philip Lea, n.d. Scale measured as 1.42 inches to 200 paces, 1:8450. [Pasted at the front is a letter from Edward Lynam to D. Grenside, 16 November 1935, in which Lynam says it is the earliest copy he has seen and that it probably came out in the year of the licence, 1699.]

Scale:

1:8450

Map-maker:

[Philip Lea [pb].].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.2 x 11.5 [inset: maximum].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

partly: [Olde Hall

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Stone Well.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [?1689]; BOL Douce Prints b.28 [?1689]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Commons:

shown: [Greene Ayre].

Crosses:

multiple crosses, (pictorial)

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Figure on horseback approaches from west.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds: [Pinfolde].

Miscellaneous religious group:

The Friars.

Ordnance Survey's

1845

1:1056

1:10,560

1890-1

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560