Norfolk-Kings Lynn-1650 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22700

Map Date:

? 1650

Repository reference:

Ashmolean Museum, Sutherland Collection, C.III, 521

Historic county:

Norfolk

Town name:

Kings Lynn

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TF617198

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TF 6523

Map title:

'The ground plat of Kings Lyn.'

Comments on map:

No 'responsibility statement' or date: Bodleian cards say 1650, by Hollar. Scale of about 1 inch to 220 'common paces', i.e. 1:13,200 if 60-inch paces are meant; 1:6600 fits comparative measurement better.

Scale:

1:6336*

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

21.0 x 21.5 [map: 41 x 31.2 with prospect].

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

misc: Staiths.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

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

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Markets and exchanges:

cross, markets, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.III, Part VII].

Industry:

glass, oil/soap etc

Antiquities:

Monastic sites.

Waterbodies:

fish ponds

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Map is on same plate as, and immediately below, 'The prospect of Kings Lyn from the West', 41.0 x 8.5: uses same reference numbers as map.

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

S. Georges Hall.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial shipping in river.

Ferries:

ferry

Tenement boundaries group:

generalised/schematic

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560