Lincolnshire-Lincoln-1724 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19664

Map Date:

[1724]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.26.e.7

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:

'Lindum Colonia. 4 Sep. 1722.'

Comments on map:

In William Stukeley, Itinerarium curiosum, London: author, 1724, plate 88. At bottom of map: Joseph Banks Jun. Ar. Tabulam D.D. Ws. Stukeley.'

Scale:

1:12,672*

Map-maker:

Stukeley [author].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

17.7 x 27.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

fragmentary

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Pictorial buildings in Newport.

Mills:

windmills

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Named well.

Places of Worship:

principal Anglican/established only

Penal:

gallows, (pictorial): [Gallows unoccupied].

Defence and military:

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

Known copies of map:

BOL MS Gough Gen.Top.15 p.59 [MS]; BLML Maps c.26.e.7, BLML K.Top. 19.29, BOL Gough Gen.Top. 55, Gough Maps 16, Fol 4 (3 different states), Gough Gen. Top. 56, BOL D2.9 Art, CUL ***, Lincoln Library, Lincolnshire Archives (2 copies) [1722]; BOL D3.9 Art [1776]; Lincoln Library [Memoirs illustrative of the history and antiquities of the county and city of Lincoln, communicated to the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, held at Lincoln, July, 1848..., London: Offices of the Institute, 1850, p.lx]; reproduced in D.R. Mills and R.C. Wheeler, Historic town plans of Lincoln 1610

Leisure and entertainment:

misc: Maypole [pictorial].

Antiquities:

Places where urns found; monastic ruins; Roman [south] gate; Mint Wall; ditches (hachured).

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

prominent hills

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Ordnance Survey's

1885-6

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560