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Norfolk-Kings Lynn-1661

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
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