Northumberland-Berwick upon Tweed-1690 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19740

Map Date:

[1690]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps c.27.e.3(11)

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:

'Berwick. Beruicum'.

Comments on map:

Attribution to Beer and dating to 1690 [rather than to Matthias Merian and dating to 1650] are via D. Smith, 'The enduring image of early British townscapes', Cartographic Journal 28 (1991), 163-175 (esp. p. 169), and Raymond Frostrick, The printed plans of Norwich (2002), p.19. The British Library copies of Exeter 18302 and 19732-19745 are in a modern bound volume without title-page or any other identification. The only text on the map is in the title. [BLML '1967' catalogue suggests ? Matthias Merian, Frankfort.]

Scale:

1:10,000*

Map-maker:

[Johnann Christoph Beer, Nurnburg [author]].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

12.8 x 16.5

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

(pictorial), windmills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

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

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps c.27.e.3, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.III, Part I, CUL F169.c.1.1 [in Das neu-geharnischte Gross-Britannien, fp.32].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Scene at bottom of map, of which it is hard to interpret the meaning: a fair? An affray? Includes men waving, men with ? pikes, a cow, a running dog, and men with bundles.

Crosses:

CP

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial boats and ship in river.

Ordnance Survey's

1851

1:528

1856

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560