Norfolk-Norwich-1696 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20573

Map Date:

1696

Repository reference:

Norwich Library, Norfolk Heritage Centre, 2.26 (QO)

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 true and exact map of the ancient and famous city of Norwich in ye county of Norfolk. Ano.1696.'

Comments on map:

Raymond Frostick's no.16.

Scale:

1:1980

Map-maker:

Tho. Cleer [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

95.0 x 117.0 [engraved on four plates].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Ribbon-effect; public, &c, buildings pictorial.

Mills:

windmills, watermills, (pictorial)

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:

Norwich Library 2.26(QO), Box XII [1696] [original];

Gardens:

shown: [Less extensive than on Exeter 20574].

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls

Antiquities:

Priory.

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial boats in river. Bottom left the scale is on a plane table with a surveyor with dividers, whilst to left two putti hold a chain above a stylised landscape.

Arms and heraldry:

dedicee of map, municipal: [Dedicee's arms larger than city's, and with supporters].

Dedicee of map:

Henry, Duke of Norfolk, etc: with his other titles recited below.

Ordnance Survey's

1880-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560