Norfolk-Norwich-1710 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20577

Map Date:

? 1710

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.31.30

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:

'Norwich'.

Comments on map:

In Raymond Frostick, The printed plans of Norwich, Norwich: author, 2002 [no.20], where says it derives from Cleer's smaller plan [Frostick's no.17: Exeter 20574]. Scale is of 400 feet on the map: is 'best fit' to Frostrick's 1:10,473.

Scale:

1:10,296

Map-maker:

Sutton Nicholls [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

17.5 x 24.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences, important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Blocks only; public buildings pictorial.

Mills:

windmills, watermills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

misc: Boom.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established predominates, (pictorial): Only non-Anglican is French Church.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

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

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, pest houses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

cross, markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Frostick's no.20: BLML K.Top.31.30 [originals];

Gardens:

shown: [Limited area].

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls

Antiquities:

Priory.

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

'molehills'

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ferries:

ferry

Ordnance Survey's

1880-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560