Lincolnshire-Stamford-1650 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22827

Map Date:

? 1650

Repository reference:

BL Add. MS. 11564 ('10' [recte fols 20-21])

Historic county:

Lincolnshire

Town name:

Stamford

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TF031072

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TF 0406

Map title:

'Plan de Stanford'.

Comments on map:

Evidently derived from Speed. In a volume, untitled, of 116 manuscript 'town plans' of Europe, in which the main interest seems to be in the fortifications and buildings outside the walls, rather than in building-up within the walls. Title is in pencil: no other text. Scale measured as 1 inch to 57 'pas' (1:3420 if a 60-inch pace is used).

Scale:

1:3420

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

62.5 x 45.3

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, decorative

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised: Omitted within walls.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

BL Add. MS. 11564.

Gardens:

shown: [Orchard-like].

Relief:

'molehills'

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560