London-1595
CBTM:
22205
Map Date:
? 1595
Repository reference:
BOL (E)C17:70 London (1555)
Town name:
Beckenham, London, Westminster, Southwark
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ320811
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 3181
Map title:
[Letterpress at top:] 'Londen oder Lunden die hauptstadt in Engellandt....', [in banner on map:] 'Londinium fer acis: Ang. Met.'
Comments on map:
From Sebastian Munster's Cosmographia: a down-market imitation of Braun & Hogenburg, with two male and two female figures in foreground. No text on map proper: letterpress notes on city gates bottom left and right.
Scale:
1:12,000*
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
36.7 x 22.7 [map: 38.0 x 30.0 with surrounding letterpress].
Number of parts:
1
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Water transport infrastructure:
wharfs: Implied by boats tied up.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): [Tower of London practically unrecognisable].
Known copies of map:
Darlington & Howgego's no.16: BL [DH6(1)]; BL [1628: DH6(2)]; GL [DH6(1)]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [DH6(1)]; London Metropolitan Archives [ex-GLC] [DH6(2)]; BOL (E)C17:70 London (1555).
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc: [Two circular buildings in Southwark imply theatres].
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Crosses:
cross, (pictorial): [Charing Cross].
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial craft on river, including travesty of royal barge; pictorial animals in fields.
Arms and heraldry:
royal arms, municipal: [Royal top left, City of London top right].
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
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