Northumberland-Berwick upon Tweed-1572 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19711

Map Date:

? 1572

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 186.h.1(27)

Historic county:

Northumberland

Town name:

Berwick upon Tweed

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NT997530

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NT 9953

Comments on map:

'Rotograph' copy by Office of Works, 1938, from original at Hatfield House. Designed to show defences rather than the town as such. The copy is at 95 per cent of original size, so scale and dimensions have been compensated.

Scale:

1:1920

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

71.3 x 49.0

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial: Pictorial ribbons.

Mills:

(pictorial), windmills

Places of Worship:

(pictorial), Anglican/established only: A pictorial building near the site of the present church assumed to be thus.

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls: No text.

Known copies of map:

HatHouse, Cecil Papers [original]; BLML Maps 186.h.1(27) [photo]; C.114 f.1 [E.M. Tenison, Elizabethan England, 1938].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Waterbodies:

shown

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial shipping in river, and semi-pictorial many-arched bridge.

Ordnance Survey's

1851

1:528

1856

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560