London-1670
CBTM:
22297
Map Date:
? 1670
Repository reference:
CUL Maps.bb.17.G.52
Town name:
Bicester, 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:
'Grundtriss der Statt London, wie solche vor, und nach dem Brand ansuseherr, sampt dem Newen Model....'
Comments on map:
Reputedly c.1670. Shows city churches but city and an area further west, as far as Lincolns Inn Fields, as without other buildings.
Scale:
1:12,500*
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
42.7 x 30.7
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
important roads only
Building names:
royal palaces, important buildings only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Public, etc, buildings pictorial.
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial): [The usual one in Lambeth, and several east of Bun hill].
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, river stairs
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, volunteer parade grounds, town walls, (pictorial): [Military Yard north of Charing Cross].
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
Darlington & Howgego's no.25. [Said to have appeared in Theatri Europaei, pub Merian heirs, 1677; facsimile by Historic Urban Plans, Ithaca, NY, 1968] [DH25; DH25.(i)]
Gardens:
shown
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground: With pictorial deer.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative: Scroll.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Bottom of map: a rebuilding plan, characterised by a grid layout with four squares.
Crosses:
cross, named: [Charing Cross].
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
Various unnamed objects in streets [all pictorial].
Arms and heraldry:
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
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