Norfolk-Great Yarmouth-1588 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19718

Map Date:

30.4.1588

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 186.h.1(37)

Historic county:

Norfolk

Town name:

Great Yarmouth

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TG523080

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TG 5207

Comments on map:

'Rotograph' copy by Office of Works, 1938, from original at Hatfield House, at 100 per cent scale. Plan map, though perhaps not strictly to scale.

Scale:

1:4000*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

144.0 x 42.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

other: Appears to be 'full colour' treatment.

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): Towers along walls named in reference.

Markets and exchanges:

cross, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 186.h.1(37) [photo: Hatfield Ho. map]; BL C114.f.1 v, BOL 22853 d.34/7 [in Tenison, Elizabethan England].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Shipping in sea and river, including a many-oared galley. Pictorial animals to seaward of town, where also is a group of twelve men working: threshing? Digging sand??

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560