Norfolk-Kings Lynn-1661 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22544

Map Date:

1661

Repository reference:

Norfolk RO B.L. 4/2

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 groundplat of Kings Lyn'.

Comments on map:

'HBell De exeu An. 1661': looks rather like 1561. Looks like an imitation of Hollar. 'A Scale of common paces' gives 1 inch to 220 paces, which at 60 inches is 1:13,200; 1:6600 seems better.

Scale:

1:6600

Map-maker:

H. Bell [author].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

29.8 x 20.8

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): [Gates named].

Markets and exchanges:

cross, markets, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

BL 10368.i.10, 10350.f.26, BOL MS Gough Norfolk 21, CUL Maps.bb.77.86.1, Norwich Library Box XXX, Norfolk RO B.L.4/2, B.L. 4/3 [originals];

Industry:

food/drink, glass, oil/soap etc

Miscellaneous:

Ladies Mount.

Antiquities:

Monastic buildings.

Waterbodies:

shown, fish ponds: [Rectangular Fish Ponds].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Surrounding arms: seems to be trying to form into a grotesque figure.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial shipping in river.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ferries:

ferry

Tenement boundaries group:

generalised/schematic

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560