Newcastle upon Tyne-1650 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22831

Map Date:

? 1650

Repository reference:

BL Add. MS. 11564 ('14' [recte fols 28-29])

Town name:

Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NZ250640

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NZ 2664

Map title:

'Plan de Newcastle ou Neuchastel.'

Comments on map:

Evidently derived from Speed. In a volume, untitled, of 116 manuscript 'town plans' of Europe, in which the main interest seems to be in the fortifications and buildings outside the walls, rather than in building-up within the walls. Text is in French. Scale measured as 1 inch to 75 'pas' (1:4500 if a 60-inch pace is used).

Scale:

1:4500

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

56.0 x 40.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, decorative

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised: Omitted within walls.

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

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

Known copies of map:

BL Add. MS. 11564 [original]; Newcastle Library L912.2 N536 [acc. Cr.C2 672678 00 23], in Newcastle Map Portfolio (map no.19) [copy].

Gardens:

shown: [Not many: orchard-like].

Antiquities:

Blacke friers.

Relief:

'molehills'

Ordnance Survey's

1894

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1857-8

1:500

1:2500

1894

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560