Northamptonshire-Northampton-1650 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22841

Map Date:

? 1650

Repository reference:

BL Add. MS. 11564 ('24' [recte fols 48-49])

Historic county:

Northamptonshire

Town name:

Northampton

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP755604

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 7562

Map title:

'Plan de Northampton.'

Comments on map:

Evidently derived from Speed. In a volume, untitled, of 116 manuscript 'town plans' of Europe, in which the main interest seems to be in the fortifications and buildings outside the walls, rather than in building-up within the walls. Text is in French. Scale measured as 1 inch to 104 'pas' (1:6240 if a 60-inch pace is used).

Scale:

1:6240

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

56.2 x 40.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, decorative

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): [Some gates named].

Known copies of map:

Northampton Public Library, Northamptonshire Room [map chest: open access] [Exeter 20767]; BL Add. MS. 11564 ('24' [recte fols 48-49]) [Exeter 22841]; Northamptonshire RO 1362, 9246, 1421, 9319 [copies]; Northamptonshire RO Map 932 [photo].

Antiquities:

Monastic remains.

Ordnance Survey's

1883-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560