London-1654 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23279

Map Date:

[1654]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps c.24.b.32

Town name:

Bradford: Bolton, 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:

'Westminster and London.'

Comments on map:

Inset top right on 'A curious new plaine and exact mapp of England, Ireland Scotland and Wales, with the Iles thereto belonging... described by I.S. and others, inlarged by G.H. and engraven by W. Hollar 1654', at back of Thomas Porter, A new booke of mapps, being a ready guide or direction for any stranger, or other, who is to travel in any part of the Comon-wealth of England, Scotland & Ireland, London: Walton, 1655. 'Southwarke' is only text on map. Derivation is presumably still ultimately from the 'copperplate' survey, via Norden and Speed.

Scale:

1:22,500*

Map-maker:

[John Speed [author]], W. Hollar [eng], R. Walton, West end of Paules [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

19.5 x 9.2 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Water transport infrastructure:

misc: Pictorial boats and shipping.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 24.a.15 [DH10].

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

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