London-1572
CBTM:
18462
Map Date:
[1572]
Repository reference:
[University of Exeter collection]
Town name:
London, Westminster and Southwark
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ320811
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3181
Map title:
'Londinium feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis'.
Comments on map:
Recorded from World Books (Cleveland & New York)/R.A. Skelton edition, 1966. In Braun & Hogenburg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Bk I, 'A'. Explanatory note, bottom left and right, in Latin: text on map proper is English. Numerous palaces, wharfs, etc, named along both sides of the river, but very little text elsewhere.
Scale:
1:10,000*
Map-maker:
[Braun & Hogenburg [pb].]
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
48.5 x 33.1
Number of parts:
1
Building names:
royal palaces
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial: 'Towre', palaces, former monastries, etc, all pictorial, as are crosses, including 'Charyncros'.
Water transport infrastructure:
wharfs
Places of Worship:
(pictorial), Anglican/established only
Penal:
misc, (pictorial): Stocks or pillory on 'Towre Hyl'.
Defence and military:
(pictorial), castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls
Recreation and sports venues:
misc, bear-baiting: Bull [and bear] baiting, in Southwark.
Woodland:
orchards, scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
DH2: British Library Maps C.7.d.1, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [DH2(1)]; BLML K.Top.20.13, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], Tower Hamlets map 1001 [DH2(2)]; Bodleian Library Gough Maps 46 Fol 2, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [DH2(3)]; Bodleian Library Gough Maps 21 Fol 2, Gough Maps 41F, Fol 6, Gough London 16, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [DH2(4)]; RGS 14.B.282 [HMF: 1981, from DH2(2)]; Bodleian Library J.Maps 258, Gough Maps London 3, Bodleian Library Ash [Sutherland coll] C.I, part VII, Bodleian Library Ash [Sutherland coll] C.I, part III [uncertain]; Bishopsgate Institute QL.18, RGS 8.C.39, Southwark Library S.C.912, Westminster Archives f.912.4211 [in Mitton 1908]; British Library Maps 3480(373), Bodleian Library (E) C17:70 London (439), CUL Maps.AA.72.88.8, RGS Eng & Wales S.1(1), Southwark Library Map Cabt 1, Map 103, Westminster Archives Map Cabt A, 044, Plan Case A, 061 [LTS 1882-3: DH(i)]; Westminster Archives Box 65, no.2 file L13 (1572); Bodleian Library (E)C17:70 London (673) [1967: London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC], publ 100]; Bodleian Library G1/C17.7 [1968: Pergamon Press: Sheet 5 of Atlas of London and the London Region]; CUL Maps.bb.71.97.1, Westminster Archives Prints Cabinet L13 (*1572) [1972 repro]; Bodleian Library C17:70 London (1065) [1972: Johnston & Bacon]; CUL Maps.bb.19.G.79, Camden 85.23 1572 [GLC, 1974]; London Metropolitan Archives RM1 [photocopy: open access]; Bodleian Library (E)C17:70 London (1240) [1981: HMF]; Bodleian Library B1 b.20 [1987: Midland Bank calendar]; Bodleian Library C1 c.16 [1991: Studio Editions]; Bodleian Library C17:70 London (1519) [1995: Shakespeare Globe Museum].
Industry:
misc: 'Ye Gounefownders', north-east of Aldgate.
Gardens:
shown
Service and professional:
Inns of Court: Temple.
Antiquities:
Former monastries.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
In foreground: two men, apparently pressing their addresses on two reluctant women [a recurrent Braun & Hogenburg theme].
Commons:
shown
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Crosses:
(pictorial), multiple crosses
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Animals in fields outside built-up area. Shipping in river includes [royal] barge being towed: no flag flying.
Arms and heraldry:
ecclesiastical, municipal: [London & Westminster].
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
some inns: [At least three Beere howse along river].
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland
Ordnance Survey's
1868-1876
1:1056
1:2500
1:10,560
1894-7
1:1056
1:2500
1:10,560
1848-51
1:1056
1:5280
1:10,560
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