Norfolk-Norwich-1661 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20572

Map Date:

[1661]

Repository reference:

BL Maps 796.a.5, BLML Maps 185.n.1(1)

Historic county:

Norfolk

Town name:

Norwich

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TG233087

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TG 2208

Map title:

'Nordovicum. Norwich.'

Comments on map:

Raymond Frostick's no.10. Derived ultimately from Cuningham [Exeter 20570], with similar scale characteristics. In R. Hermannidae, Brittannia Magna, Amsterdam, 1661, f.p.264.

Scale:

1:24,000*

Map-maker:

[R. Hermannidae [author]].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.0 x 10.7

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

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

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Frostick's no.10. BL 796.a.5, BL 10348.aaa.6, BL G.15851, BOL Gough Gen.Top.93, CUL Syn.8.66.24, Norwich Library Box XI [originals];

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

'molehills'

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Figures walking along roads to west of city.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1880-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560