London-1600 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23277

Map Date:

? 1600

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 175.t.1(3)

Town name:

Bradford: Allerton, London, Westminster

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ320811

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3181

Map title:

'Westminster', 'London'.

Comments on map:

Two maps, flanking to left and right a panorama of London, 'Civitas Londini', with note near centre 'This description of the moste famous citty London was performed in the yeare of Christe 1600 and in the yeare of the most wished and happy raigne of the right renowned Queen ELISABETH. The forty and two.... By the industry of John Norden. Cum privel. R. Ma.' Entry from photographic copy, less than ideally clear, of original understood to be in the Pepys Library, Cambridge.

Scale:

1:15,000*

Map-maker:

John Norden [author], R. Ma. [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

20.0 x 14.0 [Westminster], 20.5 x 16.0 [London] [map maxima: panorama 125.5 x 48.0 overall].

Number of parts:

2

Road names:

important roads only

Building names:

royal palaces, important buildings only

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Water transport infrastructure:

wharfs: Pictorial shipping in river.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial): Not conspicuous.

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Known copies of map:

Stockholm [original: inset on Civitas Londun [or Civitas Londoni]]; BLML Maps 175.t.1(3), 175.t.1(4) [photo], P.R.Crace Port.I.12; RGS Eng & Wales S.1(37); BOL (E)C17:70 London (561); Southwark Library Map Cabt 1, Map 353 [but this is Bowles]; ?Camden 85.23 1600, Lambeth-Minet 2/1600/MF [LTS: London Topographical Society, 1961, no.94]; CUL Maps.aa.72.96.2 [uncertain]; BOL G.A.Lond.4o 868 [1969: Oxford U.P.]; [BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] B.1, part XIII [?1615: central sheet only, which lacks the maps]] [DH5 unnumbered derivative].

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc: Globe named.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Borders:

decorative: Westminster is surrounded by 'peeling landscape', London by more conventional wood-moulding effect.

Crosses:

cross, named, (pictorial): [Charing crosse].

Arms and heraldry:

royal arms, municipal: [London: on panorama].

Ferries:

ferry

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