Norfolk-Great Yarmouth-1688 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18630

Map Date:

12.6.1688

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/488

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

Map title:

'A map of Great Yarmouth with all its streets, lanes, roads, rivers, banks, soundings, forts, old fortifications & other remarkable matters. 1688.'

Comments on map:

Evidently a reworking of Exeter 18629, with the addition of 'building infill'.

Scale:

1:1920

Map-maker:

Samuel Newton [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

278.0 x 72.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

important roads only

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Sanitary and utility information:

conduits

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls: Various defensive notes attached to reference, which is mostly concerned with defence works.

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/488 (WO 78/1402).

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Borders:

decorative

Symbolic elements:

Faces: at top and bottom of cartouche.

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560