Norfolk-Norwich-1689 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21154

Map Date:

? 1689

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10

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:

'Norwich'.

Comments on map:

Inset on The county of Norfolke exactly ploteed by CS, corrected and amended by P Lea, in All the shires of England and Wales described by Christopher Saxton being the best and original maps with many additions and corrections by Philip Lea, [London:] Philip Lea, n.d. Map presumably derived directly from Speed, but ultimately from 'Cunningham'. [Pasted at the front is a letter from Edward Lynam to D. Grenside, 16 November 1935, in which Lynam says it is the earliest copy he has seen and that it probably came out in the year of the licence, 1699.]

Scale:

1:17,500*

Map-maker:

[Philip Lea [pb].].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.0 x 9.2 [inset: maximum].

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills, watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): Gates named.

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

[Frostick's no.12, where dated 1665]: BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [?1689]; BOL Douce Prints b.28 [1689]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732].

Relief:

'molehills'

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Archery practice within walls on [south-west] side.

Ordnance Survey's

1880-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560