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Lincolnshire-Stamford-1610

CBTM:
18443
Map Date:
[1610]
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.7.c.20
Historic county:
Lincolnshire
Town name:
Stamford
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TF031072
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TF 0406
Map title:
'Stanford'.
Comments on map:
Inset on 'Rutlandshire with Oukham and Stanford her- bordering neighbour newely described', which just reaches far enough east to include it. Scale measured as 1 inch to 150 paces, 1:9000.
Scale:
1:9000
Map-maker:
John Speed [author], John Sudbury & George Humbell, Popes Head Alley against the Exchange [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
14.3 x 12.0 [inset].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Named wells.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, orchards
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; BOL Gough Maps 92, Fol BS 275, 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)]; BOL (E)C17:34(29) [1611/1971: Kelly: repub in directory]; 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...]; BLML Maps C.7.e.6 [1666]; 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 Rutland 2, Bl.14.Jur [1676: Bassett & Chiswell]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL C17 b.2, M.Res 1/25 [1720: Overton]; BOL Gough Maps 16 Fol 49 [1727: by F.P.; I. Harris, engr; from Peck's Annals of Stamford]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...]; BOL G.A.Lincs 8o 19, BOL Gough Lincoln 21 [1785: engr Neele; in W. Harrod, The antiquities of Stamford, Vol. 1, pub W. Harrod].
Industry:
textiles: 'Tenter medow'.
Gardens:
shown
Antiquities:
Monastic sites.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Crosses:
multiple crosses, (pictorial)
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
North of town a man is ploughing. Dividers above scale.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1884
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1899
1:2500
1:10,560
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