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Oxfordshire-Oxford-1605

CBTM:
18432
Map Date:
1605
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.7.c.20
Historic county:
Oxfordshire
Town name:
Oxford
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SP513063
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SP 5206
Comments on map:
Inset on 'Oxfordshire described with ye citie...': no title or scale, but there is a large blank area which would suit both. No street names.
Scale:
1:10,560*
Map-maker:
John Speede [author], I.S. & G.H., Popes Head Alley against the Exchange [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
15.3 x 17.0 [inset: maximum].
Number of parts:
1
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [the Gardner Copy: NFP] [1603-11: proof set]; BLML Maps C.7.c.20, BOL G.A. Oxon.a.41(6), also (7) ['1605']; BLML Maps C.7.c.5 [1610]; BOL Gough Maps 92, Fol BS 275, (E)C17:49 (114, 115,116,117), G.A. Oxon a.41(6), J.Maps 224 (10), CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL G.A. Oxon b.210 [1610/1973: in Old Oxford, pb Steeple Books]; CUL Maps.bb.30.02 [1611/1923-6: Kelly: repub in directory]; BOL G1/C17.2/3, CUL Atlas.3.95.15 [1611/1953: John Arlott (intro), Phoenix House (pub)]; BOL (E)C17:49(227) [1611/1971: Kelly: repub in directory]; CUL Atlas.2.97.32 [1611/1975.c: N.T. Leslie pb [Rare Books] The English county maps of John Speed]; BOL (E)C17:49 (275) [1611/1988: pb Bodleian Library]; BOL 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 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, OxCL MPC 373 [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...]; Oxford City Library MPC 376 [1646]; BOL MS. Top. Oxon C.262 f.VIII [1650: Roger Rea]; 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, G.A. Oxon a.41(7a), Oxford City Library MPC 385, MPC 391 [1676: Bassett & Chiswell]; OxCL MPC 391 [1695.c: photo]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL C17 b.2, M.Res 1/34 [1720.c: H. Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...].
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground: [Chrift Church Medowes and walkes].
Antiquities:
Monastic remains.
Arms and heraldry:
university colleges, municipal: [University and college arms round main map].
Ordnance Survey's
1873-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1897-8
1:2500
1:10,560
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