Northamptonshire-Higham Ferrers-1591 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20694

Map Date:

? 1591

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.b.20

Historic county:

Northamptonshire

Town name:

Higham Ferrers

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP961687

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 9367

Map title:

'Highamferers'.

Comments on map:

Fol.49 in manuscript, 'Speculum Northamptoniae 1591': original in Bibliotecque Nationale, Paris.

Scale:

1:4752*

Map-maker:

[Jo. Norden [sv].]

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

20.3 x 13.7

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges: ['Colledge'].

Markets and exchanges:

cross, markets, (pictorial)

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Bibliotecque Nationale, Paris [original]; BLML Maps C.7.b.20, Northamptonshire RO Map 4661 A & B, RGS Eng & Wales S/S 200 [photo].

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

misc: Comon Hall.

Antiquities:

Site of old castle.

Dedicee of map:

Lord Burgleigh [dedicee of volume].

Tenement boundaries group:

generalised/schematic

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560