Northamptonshire-Northampton-1689 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21149

Map Date:

? 1689

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10

Historic county:

Northamptonshire

Town name:

Northampton

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP755604

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 7562

Map title:

'Northampton'.

Comments on map:

Inset on The County of Northampton together wth ye three small Counties of Bedford Hvntingdon & Rvtland exactly drawn by one scale by CS, corrected & amended with many additions by P. Lea, in All the shires of England and Wales described by Christopher Saxton being the best and original maps with many additions and corrections by Philip Lea, [London:] Philip Lea, n.d. [Pasted at the front is a letter from Edward Lynam to D. Grenside, 16 November 1935, in which Lynam says it is the earliest copy he has seen and that it probably came out in the year of the licence, 1699.]

Scale:

1:12,500*

Map-maker:

[Philip Lea [pb].].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.3 x 13.0 [inset: maximum].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

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

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [?1689]; BOL Douce Prints b.28 [1689]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732].

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Towers:

tower: [The Towre].

Miscellaneous religious group:

Monastic sites.

Ordnance Survey's

1883-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560