Northumberland-Newcastle upon Tyne-1610 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18461

Map Date:

1610

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.c.20

Historic county:

Northumberland

Town name:

Newcastle upon Tyne

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NZ250640

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NZ 2664

Map title:

'Newe:castle'.

Comments on map:

Inset on 'Northumberland'. Scale measured as 1 inch to 195 paces, 1:11,700.

Scale:

1:11,700

Map-maker:

William Mathew ['described by': sv]; John Speed [author], John Sudbury & George Humble, Popes Head Alley against the Exchange [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

15.0 x 11.2 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only: [Kings maner

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

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

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals, misc: Trinitie Houfe [ecclesiastical or navigational?].

Education and academic:

schools

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.c.5, Newcastle Library L.912.2 N536 (Newcastle Map Portfolio, no.1) [1610]; BOL Gough Maps 92, Fol BS 275, C17 b.1, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL G1/C17.2/4, CUL Atlas.3.95.15 [1611/1953: John Arlott (intro), Phoenix House (pub)]; uBOL 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 C17:70 Newcastle on Tyne b.1 [1611?/1984: Frank Graham, inset on Speed's Northumberland]; BOL C15 c16=G24/C15.12 [1616/1988: 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: Geo 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 [1720.c: H. Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...]; BOL Gough Maps Northumberland 11 [1743]; BOL G.A.Northumb.8o 345 [1970: William Mathew, in William Gray, Chorographia, or a survey of Newcastle upon Tyne, reissued by Frank Graham] [BL C.122.d.29, G.3176 [1649: no map]].

Antiquities:

Monastic sites.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

'molehills'

Crosses:

cross, (pictorial)

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

River with shipping.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

misc: Scottish inne.

Ordnance Survey's

1857-8

1:500

1:2500

1894

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560