Norfolk-Fakenham-1650 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22537

Map Date:

? 1650

Repository reference:

Norfolk RO PD 204/128(M)

Historic county:

Norfolk

Town name:

Fakenham

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TF920296

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TF 9429

Map title:

'The Description... [?] Fakenham....'

Comments on map:

Title faded, and map not now very legible: reputedly 1650. Heavily pricked for copying.

Scale:

1:3168

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

129 x 122

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, land-use, decorative

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial): With weathercock.

Known copies of map:

Norfolk RO PD 204/128(M) [copy at PD 204/129(M)].

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Commons:

shown

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Dividers above scale.

Arms and heraldry:

uncertain: Top right, colourful: owner?

Map material:

parchment

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1884-5

1:2500

1:10,560