Norfolk-Norwich-1650 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22822

Map Date:

? 1650

Repository reference:

BL Add. MS. 11564 ('5' [recte fols 10-11])

Historic county:

Norfolk

Town name:

Norwich

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TG233087

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TG 2208

Map title:

'Plan de Norwich.'

Comments on map:

Evidently derived directly from Speed and indirectly from 'Kenningham'. In a volume, untitled, of 116 manuscript 'town plans' of Europe, in which the main interest seems to be in the fortifications and buildings outside the walls, rather than in building-up within the walls. Text is in French.

Scale:

1:6000*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

61.8 x 45.7

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, decorative

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised: Omitted within walls.

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

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

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BL Add. MS. 11564.

Gardens:

shown: [Not many: orchard-like].

Relief:

'molehills'

Ordnance Survey's

1880-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560