Northumberland-Berwick upon Tweed-1610 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18460

Map Date:

1610

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.c.20

Historic county:

Northumberland

Town name:

Berwick upon Tweed

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NT997530

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NT 9953

Map title:

'Barwick'.

Comments on map:

Inset on 'Northumberland'. Scale measured as 1 inches to 95 paces, 1:5700.

Scale:

1:5700

Map-maker:

John Speede [author], John Sudbury & George Humble, Popes Head Alley against the Exchange [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

16.7 x 13.3 [inset: maximum].

Number of parts:

1

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

misc: Tolbooth.

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [the Gardner Copy: NFP] [1603-11: proof set]; BLML Maps C.7.c.20, BLML Maps C.7.e.6, BL G.7884, BOL Gough Maps 92, Fol. BS 275, C17.b1, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611]; BOL G1/C17.2/4, CUL Atlas.3.95.15 [1954: John Arlott (intro), Phoenix House (pub)]; CUL Atlas.2.97.32 [1611/1975.c: N.T. Leslie pb [Rare Books] The English county maps of John Speed]; BOL C17 b.13, CUL Atlas.2.95.6 [1614/1957: pb Guildford: Charles Traylen [dated 1955 in some lists]]; BOL Douce S subt.50, CUL Atlas 4.61.1 [1616: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL C15.c16 = G24/C15.12 [1988: Pavilion/Michael Joseph]; CUL Atlas 5.99.222 [1616/1995: reduced facsimile, as 1616/1988]; CUL Atlas.7.62.1, Atlas.7.64.4,2, Syn.7.62.91 [1627: 'described and abridged...': different typesettings]; CUL L*.7.10(A) [1627: A prospect of the most famous parts of the World...]; CUL Atlas.7.95.7 [1627/1951: E.G.R. Taylor, An atlas of Tudor England and Wales, Harmondsworth, King Penguin, 1951, 19 cm]; BOL Douce Prints b.24 [1627/32: Humble]; CUL Atlas.4.62.2, Bury.18.2 [1631: A prospect...]; CUL Atlas.7.64.4, Atlas 7.62.2, Atlas 7.64.3 [1646: A prospect...]; CUL Atlas.7.66.3,i, Atlas.7.66.4,1 [1666: England... described]; CUL Atlas.7.67.1 [1676: England... described and abridged]; CUL Atlas.4.67.7, Qq*.1.280(AA) [2 copies], Hanson.bb.43, Ely.a.188 [1676]; CUL Maps.bb.53.67.1, Maps.bb.53.67.2 [1676: different letterpress settings]; BOL Bl.14.Jur [1676: Bassett/Chiswell]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL C17 b.2, BOL M.Res 1/13 [1720: Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...]; BOL Gough Maps Northumberland 11 [1743: Overton]; CUL Maps.BB.79.82.2,1 [c.1820 litho, 18 x 15]; BL 10370.d.17, CUL Maps.79.97.1,1 ['1564': lith W.H.Lizars, f.p. 174 in F. Sheldon, History of Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1849, 18 x 15].

Antiquities:

Maison deeu [sic].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Miscellaneous service buildings:

[Kings Stables, Store Houses].

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Numerous named 'mounts'.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Ships in river.

Ordnance Survey's

1851

1:528

1856

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560