Middlesex-London-1557 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18537

Map Date:

? 1557

Repository reference:

University of Exeter Geography Department

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

London

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ326811

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3181

Comments on map:

The Copperplate Map: record based on the reproduction in A collection of early maps of London 1553-1667, introduction by John Fisher, Lympne: Harry Margary, 1981, and Ann Saunders and John Schofield, eds, Tudor London: a map and a view, London Topographical Society (publication 159), 2001.

Scale:

1:2000*

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

49 x 37 (x 3) [published fragments].

Number of parts:

3

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

wharfs

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Wells indicated in streets.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

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

Known copies of map:

BOL G.A.London 8o 1844 [1963: London Museum: Moorfields only]; BLML Maps 188.q.1(4) [2 sh]; CUL Atlas 5.98.8, RGS 14.A.379, Southwark Library S.C. 912, Westminster Archives f.912.4211 [1979: A-Z of Elizabethan London (Harry Margary & London Topographical Society [LTS 122], 1979) : 2 sections only]; BOL G24/C17.7 [LTS 1964]; BOL (E)C17:70 London (1240), BOL (E)C17:70 London (1250), RGS 14.B.282 [1981: Harry Margary & Guildhall Library, Early maps of London, 1553-1667: intro by John Fisher: 2 sections only]; [Museum of London, London's lost map, 3rd section of copperplate map, 1998

Industry:

textiles: [Tenters].

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

Whyt-freres, Blak freres.

Commons:

shown

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

'Dogge hous' on Moor Field.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Animals in fields and archers, etc, in fields outside walls; boats in river.

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