Northumberland-Newcastle upon Tyne-1723
CBTM:
19684
Map Date:
? 1723
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.32.51.Roll
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:
'Newcastle upon Tyne...'
Comments on map:
Most identification of buildings is either via reference, or else via letters referring to the vignettes round the outside: an unusual system, but effective. This copy is undated.
Scale:
1:1200
Map-maker:
James Corbridge [sv], J. Harris [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
95.5 x 68.5 [map 76.5 x 48.7].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
clergy residences, partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Sanitary and utility information:
conduits, misc: Pictorial pumps or 'Fountains'.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Non-Anglican are discreetly shown as 'Meetings'.
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
BLML K.Top.32.51, BOL Gough Maps Northumberland 10, Newcastle Library L.912.2 N536 [acc. Cr.D.2276] Tyne & Wear Archives D/NCP/2/2 [1723]; Newcastle Library L912.2 N536 [acc Cr.230785, Cr.C2 701869 00 54, LRS C2 725363 00 40] ['1723-4']; Newcastle Library L912.2 N536 (in Newcastle Map Portfolio (map no.8), Tyne & Wear Archives 1637/17 [redo by Thomas Oliver, 1836]; BLML Maps 4560(9), Tyne & Wear Archives D/NCP/2/3 [Angerer & Goscl, Vienna, 1880]; BLML maps 4560(3) [1889 fac, notes by J.R.Boyle]; Durham RO open shelves [transcript version, fp 88 in John William Steel, A historical sketch of the Society of Friends ''in scorn called quakers'' in Newcastle and Gateshead. 1653-1898', London: Headley Brothers, 1898]; Newcastle Library L.912.2 N536, Cr.951433A LRS 4531, LRS 8809], Cr.230785, RGS Eng & Wales S.617 [Newcastle City Libs, 1977, from 1880s Vienna]; BOL C17:70 Newcastle on Tyne b.1, Tyne & Wear Archives 825/1 [1984: Frank Graham].
Industry:
rope walk: Pictorial.
Gardens:
shown
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Antiquities:
Fryars.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Around the edge are 26 views of churches, livery halls, and other notable buildings, including the residences of prominent citizens: the effect is similar to the Cossins maps of Scarborough, York and Leeds [Exeter 18340, 18342, 18343]. As with the public buildings, the residences are keyed to the map: or should it be vice-versa?
Relief:
'molehills'
Crosses:
MP
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Coach on road going east, pictorial shipping in river, cattle in field, boys in field apparently playing with kite.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1857-8
1:500
1:2500
1894
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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