Norfolk-Kings Lynn-1725 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21067

Map Date:

1725

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.31.28

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:

'Ichnographia burgi perantiqui Lennae Regis in agro Norfolciensi accurate delineata Ano. MDCCXXV.'

Comments on map:

Text all in Latin, except for reference, which is in English.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

Gul. Rastrick [author].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

72.5 x 45.2 [overall: map 57.2 x 44.5 maximum].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Sanitary and utility information:

water works

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, incomplete Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Defence and military:

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

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML K.Top.31(28) [1725]; BL G.3789, BOL Gough Norfolk 41, Gough Maps Norfolk 9, Gough Maps 24, Fol 53B, V 5.17 Jur, G.A.Norfolk c.8, CUL Lib.3.73.7 [1775, in Essays towards Topo Hist of Nfk]; CUL LL.10.47 [1772: in C.Parkin, a topographical history of Freebridge...]; HMN 7/335/1-3 773 x 4 [1808]; Norfolk RO B.L. 4/1 [modern reprint]; RGS Eng & Wales S.720 [repro from its original by Lynn museum, 1980s].

Industry:

oil/soap etc: [Oyl Mill].

Gardens:

shown

Miscellaneous:

Stath-Yards.

Antiquities:

Monastic: some, e.g. Ladys Mount, Greyfriars, are pictorial.

Waterbodies:

shown, fish ponds

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Top of map: evidently town seal, both sides; top right: regalia; bottom left: market cross; bottom: prspect from west; bottom right: custom house or exchange.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Animals in fields inside the walls; pictorial shipping in river; a man on horseback draws a train of five barges downstream.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Dedicee of map:

Sir Horace Walpole [in latin].

Tenement boundaries group:

generalised/schematic

Ordnance Survey's

1883

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560