Newcastle upon Tyne-1700 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22694

Map Date:

? 1700

Repository reference:

BOL Gough Maps 25, fol. 43

Town name:

Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NZ250640

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NZ 2664

Map title:

'Newe Castle. Novum Castrum.'

Comments on map:

Very similar to that in R. Hermannidae, Britannia Magna [Exeter 21365], but has reference at top. Dated c.1700 in BOL cards.

Scale:

1:12,000*

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.0 x 12.2

Number of parts:

1

Building names:

royal palaces

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

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

Education and academic:

schools

Known copies of map:

BOL Gough Maps 25 Fol 43.

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

Black friers.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

'molehills'

Crosses:

cross, (pictorial)

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Animals in fields to west of town; boats and shipping in river.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

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