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Oxfordshire-Oxford-1654

CBTM:
23278
Map Date:
[1654]
Repository reference:
BLML Maps c.24.b.32
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
Map title:
'Oxforde'.
Comments on map:
Inset top left on 'A curious new plaine and exact mapp of England, Ireland Scotland and Wales, with the Iles thereto belonging... described by I.S. and others, inlarged by G.H. and engraven by W. Hollar 1654', at back of Thomas Porter, A new booke of mapps, being a ready guide or direction for any stranger, or other, who is to travel in any part of the Comon-wealth of Enmgland, Scotland & Ireland, London: Walton, 1655. Title is only text; oriented south.
Scale:
1:20,000*
Map-maker:
[John Speed [author]], W. Hollar [eng], R. Walton, West end of Paules [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
8.8 x 6.3 [inset].
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: Inferred from pictorial depiction.
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps c.24.b.32 [1655]; TNA [PRO] Library, BOL G.A. Oxon a.41(18) [1887: E. Weller, lith: redrawn plan, in Charles W. Boase, Oxford [Historic Towns series], 2nd ed, London, Longman, 1887, f.p.135].
Gardens:
shown
Ordnance Survey's
1873-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1897-8
1:2500
1:10,560
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