Leicestershire-Leicester-1610 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18444

Map Date:

1610

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.c.20

Historic county:

Leicestershire

Town name:

Leicester

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SK584044

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SK 5904

Map title:

'Leicester'.

Comments on map:

Inset on 'Leicester both countye and citie described...'

Scale:

1:10,560*

Map-maker:

John Speed [author], Jodocus Hondius [eng], John Sudbury & George Humble, Popes Head Alley [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

14.2 x 19.8 [inset: maximum].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls, (pictorial), misc.: 'The newe warke'; various walls south of the castle, but otherwise town walls don't appear.

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, trade halls, markets: [Woole Hall, Swines Market, Satterdayes Market, S Nicholas Shambles].

Recreation and sports venues:

cock-fighting

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [the Gardner Copy: NFP] [1603-11: proof set]; CUL Maps.69.97.2 [1608/1970: repro of proof state: town enlarged]; BLML Maps C.7.c.20, BLML Maps C.7.c.5, BOL Gough Maps 92, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL G1/C17.2/3, CUL Atlas.3.95.15 [1611/1954: 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 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...]; 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 Gough Maps ** [1676: Bassett & Chiswell]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL C17 b.2 [1720.c: H. Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...]; TNA [PRO] Library [1795: transcript in Nicholls I.i., f.p.9,]; Leicestershire RO Ma/179/7 [facsimile]; CUL S696.c.94.47 [1947: reproduced in B.L. Gimson & P. Russell, Lecicestershire maps, 1947].

Antiquities:

Monastic sites.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

'molehills'

Crosses:

multiple crosses, (pictorial)

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1884-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560