Middlesex-Westminster-1593 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18479

Map Date:

? 1593

Repository reference:

[University of Exeter collection]

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Westminster

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ295795

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3181

Map title:

'Westminster.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from Phillippa Glanville, London in Maps, London: The Connoisseur, 1972. In Speculum Britannie: Pars Middlesex.

Scale:

1:7920*

Map-maker:

John Norden [author].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

26.8 x 16.8

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

important roads only

Building names:

royal palaces: [Old and new palaces at Westminster].

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Water transport infrastructure:

river stairs

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps c.7.b.23(1), BL T.799(2), BOL Gough Middlesex 2, Gough Maps 23, Fol 1, Gough Cornwall 21, Wood 276B, fol XXXV, (E)C17:70 London 366, Arch Ge 41, Douce N.253, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.II, Part I, CUL Lx.16.18i(E), Bbx.10.46(6a)(E) ['1593']; BLML Maps 175.t.1(3) [?1630]; BLML maps 28.b.35, BOL Gough Middlesex 5, CUL Atlas.6.72.1 [Senex, 1723]; BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.I, Part V, Westminster Archives Box 64 no.3a (also 3b) [1808, J.T.Smith: 9.25 x 5.875'']; BLML Maps 3480(372), CUL Maps.AA.72.89.3 (index: Maps.aa.72.89.3a), Westminster Archives Board Room Drawer no.4 [LTS, 1899]; BOL C17:70 London c.6 [1972: in Phillipa Glanville, London in Maps, London: The Connoisseur].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Former monastic sites, etc: 'Convent Garden'.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Borders:

decorative

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Temple Bar.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Numerous boats on Thames; some animals in the fields, including three deer in St James park.

Arms and heraldry:

royal arms

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1868-70

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560