Norfolk-Norwich-1696 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20574

Map Date:

? 1696

Repository reference:

BOL Gough Maps Norfolk 3

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:

'A new mapp of the ancient & famous city of Norwich....'

Comments on map:

Raymond Frostick's no.17. Scale is about 1 inch to 105 yards (1:3780). A reduced version of Exeter 20573, with note below title-cartouche 'There is a mapp of the same citty in four sheets'.

Scale:

1:3780

Map-maker:

Thos Cleer [sv].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

51.0 x 62.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

fragmentary

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Ribbony: public, etc, buildings pictorial.

Mills:

windmills, watermills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

misc: Boom [not on Exeter 20573].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): Named gates and towers.

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, pest houses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

cross, markets, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

BOL Gough Maps Norfolk 3, Norwich Castle Museum [originals]; CUL Syn.4.88.214 [1888: in W.J.C. Moens, The Walloons and their Church at Norwich]; BOL G.A.Norfolk b.6, CUL Lib.2.89.39, S696.a.88.51 [in Kirkpatrick, 1889];

Gardens:

shown: [More extensive than on Exeter 20573].

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls

Antiquities:

Priory.

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Restrained for scale, exuberant with fruit for title.

Relief:

'molehills'

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Dividers above scale. Coach and horses approaching along 'London Rodde'; three pictorial animals on Chapply Field.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal: [At top of title-cartouche].

Ferries:

ferry

Dedicee of map:

Mayor, aldermen and 'worthy citizens'.

Ordnance Survey's

1880-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560