Norfolk-Norwich-1588
CBTM:
21404
Map Date:
[1588]
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 29.b.44
Historic county:
Norfolk
Town name:
Norwich
Map type:
uncertain
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TG233097
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TG 2208
Map title:
Top centre: 'Norwich.' Bottom right: 'Nordovicum Angliae Civitas Episcopalis...'
Comments on map:
From Henry B. Wheatley and Edmund W. Ashbee, The particular description of England, 1588... by William Smith, Rouge Dragon, London: 'Printed for subscribers only', 1879, Plate XXVII. Seems to be a straightforward transcription of Kenningham, or whoever did his map.
Scale:
1:10,000*
Map-maker:
[William Smith [author].]
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
28.2 x 16.8
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, general highlighting of district, decorative: Green ground-tint.
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): Named gates.
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 29.b.44, BOL G.A.Gen.Top. 4o 265, CUL Atlas.6.58.1, Lib.4.87.127 [1879]; BOL G24.C17.22 [1993: in P.D.A. Harvey, Maps in Tudor England, London: British Library, Public Record Office].
Magnetic data:
diagram: True and magnetic north are indicated: 'needle' points to the latter.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Crosses:
multiple crosses, (pictorial)
Arms and heraldry:
ecclesiastical, municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1880-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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