London-1593 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19512

Map Date:

1593]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.23(1)

Town name:

Aberford, London, Southwark

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ326811

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3181

Map title:

'London'.

Comments on map:

In John Norden, Speculum Britanniae. The first parte. (1593), f.p.26. 'Scala passum s.pedum', about 1 inch to 400. [In the same volume are maps of Middlesex and Hertfordshire: Middlesex has squaring, Hartfordshire has marginal divisions only. Preceding the Hertfordshire map is 'Things to be considered in the use of this booke and Mappe. The figures and letters, which follow the names of the places in the alphabeticall tables, are a ready meane whereby to find, any place desired in the Mapp, by referring them to meet, in the squares, very familiarly: without which helpe a place unknown would be long to find in the Mappe.

Scale:

1:14,400*

Map-maker:

John Norden ['descripsit'], Pieter Vanden Keere ['fecit'].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

24.7 x 17.2

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

DH5: BLML Maps C.7.23(1), BL T.799(2), BOL (E)C17:70 London (20), Gough Middlesex 3, Gough Middlesex 5, CUL Bb.x.10.46.6(E), C.x.16.18.i(E), GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [DH5(1)]; BOL Gough Maps 46 Fol 7, Windsor Castle Lib [1623: DH5(2)]; BLML Maps 3480(415), BL Carace Port. I.33, BLML Maps 3480(412), BOL Gough Maps London 4, Gough Maps 41F, Fol 6, Gough Maps 43, No.51, Wood 276b, fol XXXIV, GL, London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [1653: P.Stent: DH5(3)]; CUL Atlas 6.72.1 [1723: Senex]; BLML Maps 3480(371), 3480(372), BOL (E)C17:70 London (465), CUL Maps.AA.72.89.3, Camden 85.23 1593 Lambeth-Minet 2/[1593]/MF(A) (AP826), 2/1593/MF(B) (AP 827) [LTS 1899]; Bishopsgate Institute QL.18, BOL C17:70 London d.1, RGS 8.C.39, Southwark Library S.C.912, Southwark Library print colln P.6246, Westminster Archives f.912.4211 [in Geraldine Edith Mitton, Maps of Old London, London: Black, 1908 1908]; RGS Eng & Wales S.1(3B), Westminster Archives Map Cabinet A, 044, also Board Room Drawer no.4 [LTS, 1889 or 99: DH5.i)]; Westminster Archives L.13 (1593) [repro. in The Graphic, 21:10:1876: not in DH];

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Shipping in river, including rowed (? royal) barge.

Arms and heraldry:

livery companies, royal arms, municipal

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

Skeleton survey