Lincolnshire-Lincoln-1610 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18446

Map Date:

1610

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.c.20

Historic county:

Lincolnshire

Town name:

Lincoln

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SK978718

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SK 9769

Map title:

'Lincoln'.

Comments on map:

Inset on 'the countie and citie of Lyncolne described...'. Scale measured as 1 inch to 190 paces, 1:11,400. Not one of Speed's more informative town maps. Note above map that Lincoln has been the scene of 'two great conflicts'. (The original manuscript of this is in Merton College, Oxford, D.3.30, map 13, dated 19 July 1607: see Sarah Bendall, 'Draft town maps for John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine', Imago Mundi 54, 2002, 30-45 (Appendix on p.44). It is discussed in more detail in R.A. Carroll, 'John Speed's map of Lincoln', in Jean Howard and David Start (eds), All things Lincolnshire, [Lincoln:] Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2007, pp 58-63: the original is 45.5 x 102.2 cm, and some detail at the edges was omitted in reducing the map for engraving.)

Scale:

1:11,400

Map-maker:

[John Speed [sv]], Jodocus Hondius [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

22.5 x 10.8 [inset: maximum].

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills: Numerous.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): Walls incomplete.

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Known copies of map:

CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [the Gardner Copy: NFP] [1603-11: proof set]; BLML Maps C.7.c.20, BLML Maps C.7.c.5, BL Add MSS 11564, fo.39, BOL Gough Maps 92, Fol.BS 275, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; Lincoln Library, copy, Drawer 3, Lincolnshire Archives EX 32/2/157 [1611?]; BLML 3355(36), CUL Maps.bb.30.01, CUL Maps.bb.30.01.70, CUL Maps.bb.30.02.70 [1611/1876: Kelly: repub in directory]; CUL Maps.bb.30.02, L475.b.18.11 [1611/1926: Kelly: repub in directory]; BOL G1/C17.b.10/4, 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.c./16 [1616/1988: Pavilion/M. 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...]; Lincolnshire Archives EX 8/1/3 [1644]; 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 Bl.14 Jur. [1676: Bassett & Chiswell]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL C17.b.2, M.Res.1/23 [1720: Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...]; BOL Gough Maps 16 Fol.4 [?1743]; reproduced in D.R. Mills and R.C. Wheeler, Historic town plans of Lincoln 1610

Antiquities:

Former monastic sites.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

'molehills'

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1885-6

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560