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Lincolnshire-Lincoln-1693

CBTM:
19828
Map Date:
? 1693
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 3355 (5), BLML Maps C.21.e.10
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:
'Lincolne'.
Comments on map:
Inset on C. Saxton, Lincolne Shire and Nottinghame Shire, (Carrol.1(v)); BLML attributes this state, and the addition of the map of Lincoln (a straight copy of Speed) to Philip Lea. Scale is 1 inch to 200 paces, i.e. 1:12,000 if a 5-foot pace is used. Also 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:
1:12,000
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
10.0 x 22.0 [maximum of inset].
Number of parts:
1
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial: Gable-end-on.
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial): Disproportionately large.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial): On their sides, i.e. not rectified from Speed.
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [1689]; BOL Douce Prints b.28 [1689]; BLML Maps 3355(5) [1695].
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1885-6
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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