Northumberland-Berwick upon Tweed-1590 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23154

Map Date:

? 1590

Repository reference:

BL Cotton Aug.I.ii.14

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

Map title:

'The true description of her Majesties towne of Barwick.'

Comments on map:

Supposed to date from 1590: top-quality execution, and highly 'pictorial'. Scale, top, left, presumed to be graduated in feet.

Scale:

1:3168

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

74.5 x 55.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, boundaries, land-use, decorative

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial: Roofs mostly brown: a few are red.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): Cannon on bastions.

Known copies of map:

BL Cotton Aug.I.ii.14 [MS]; BL 10370.h.12, NLS A.25.a [1888: reduction, 43 x 30, f.p. 172, in John Scott, Berwick-upon-Tweed].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore, foreshore material specified

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Round scale and round title.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial ships and boats in sea and river: men fishing with nets in river.

Map material:

parchment

Ordnance Survey's

1851

1:528

1856

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560