Northumberland-Newcastle upon Tyne-1689 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21136

Map Date:

? 1689

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10

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:

'Newecastle'.

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. [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:

1:12,000

Map-maker:

[Philip Lea [pb].].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

12.5 x 11.2 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Building names:

royal palaces, important buildings only: Kings manor

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): Gates named.

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals: Hospital is 'West Spittle'.

Education and academic:

schools

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [?1689]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Boats and ships on river.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Miscellaneous religious group:

Former monastic etc buildings named.

Ordnance Survey's

1857-8

1:500

1:2500

1894

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560