Norfolk-Norwich-1581 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18464

Map Date:

[1581]

Repository reference:

[University of Exeter collection]

Historic county:

Norfolk

Town name:

Norwich

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TG233097

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TG 2208

Map title:

'Nordovicum, Angliae Civitas'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from World Books (Cleveland & New York)/R.A. Skelton edition, 1966. In Braun & Hogenburg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Bk 3, I. Latin title: other text in English. Supposed to be engraved by Hofnaegele. [No.2 in Raymond Frostrick, The printed plans of Norwich (2002).]

Scale:

1:7500*

Map-maker:

[Braun & Hogenburg [pb].]

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

42.2 x 29.5

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills, watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Penal:

misc: Number 1 in the reference is 'The place where men are customablie burnt' [not in use].

Defence and military:

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

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

No.2 in Raymond Frostrick, The printed plans of Norwich (2002). BLML Maps C.7.d.1, Maps 13.e.10, BOL J.Maps 230 [41]; BOL Gough Maps Norfolk 1, Norwich Library Box XII [Civ. Ord. Terr., 1580-3]; BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.II, Part II [1592: Latin edn]; Norwich Library Box XII [1616]; Norwich Library Box XIII [1657: Jansson]; Norwich Library Box XI [1883 version]; BLML Maps 4350(4) [1896 fac] [BL 215.f.3, Add MS 23037 f.33, Bod Gough Norfolk Maps 1, Norfolk Lib, Castle; BLML Maps C.25.b.10; Norwich Library Box XII [W.B. Whittingham & Co.]

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Male and female figure in foreground.

Crosses:

multiple crosses, (pictorial)

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Within walls (south-west side) is archery practice: outside the walls are grazing flocks and ploughing, and shepherds with crooks and dogs.

Arms and heraldry:

royal arms, municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1880-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560