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Northumberland-Berwick upon Tweed-1689

CBTM:
21135
Map Date:
? 1689
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.21.e.10
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 described by C: Saxton corrected and amended by Phill: 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. Scale measured as 1.12 inches to 200 paces, 1:10,715. [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:
1:10,715
Map-maker:
Phillip Lea [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
10.8 x 10.8 [inset: maximum].
Number of parts:
1
Building names:
royal palaces: Pallace.
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative: [Tolebooth & Slate houfe].
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial), misc.: Named gates, 'mounts', etc: 2 Store houfes, Kinges Stables.
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [?1689]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732].
Gardens:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Boats and ships on river and sea.
Ordnance Survey's
1851
1:528
1856
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1897
1:2500
1:10,560
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