Monmouthshire-Monmouth-1689
CBTM:
21159
Map Date:
? 1689
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.21.e.10
Historic county:
Monmouthshire
Town name:
Monmouth
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SO509129
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SO 5012
Map title:
'Monmouth'.
Comments on map:
Inset on Monmouthshire heeretofore part of Wales but now added to other English shires in ye constant circuite of the Iudges by CS corrected & amended by P Lea, in All the shires of England and Wales described by Christopher Saxton being the best and original maps with many additions and corrections by Philip Lea, [London:] Philip Lea, n.d. [Pasted at the front is a letter from Edward Lynam to D. Grenside, 16 November 1935, in which Lynam says it is the earliest copy he has seen and that it probably came out in the year of the licence, 1699.]
Scale:
1:6336*
Map-maker:
[Philip Lea [pb].].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
12.5 x 7.3 [inset: maximum].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, orchards
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [?1689]; BOL Douce Prints b.28 [1689]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732].
Gardens:
shown
Crosses:
cross, (pictorial)
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1880
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1899-1900
1:2500
1:10,560
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