Leicestershire-Leicester-1689 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21148

Map Date:

? 1689

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10

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:

'Lecester'.

Comments on map:

Inset on Warwick and Leicester Shires described by c.s. corrected & amended w. many additions 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. [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:

1:10,560*

Map-maker:

[Philip Lea [pb].].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

12.2 x 11.8 [inset: maximum: map 8.8 x 9.2].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates: Gates named.

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals: [The Spittle, Old Hospitall].

Markets and exchanges:

markets, trade halls: [Woole Hall].

Recreation and sports venues:

cock-fighting

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

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

Relief:

'molehills'

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Monastic sites, pictorial crosses.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1884-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560