Oxfordshire-Oxford-1674 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20404

Map Date:

? 1674

Repository reference:

BLML Maps *4735 (5)

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:

'Ichnographia Oxonia una cum Propugnaculis bet Munimentus quibus cungebatur Anno 1648'.

Comments on map:

Said to be for A. Wood's History of Oxford, 1674.

Scale:

1:4800*

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

55 x 41 [evidently cropped].

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls: Civil war earthworks shown in detail: this is the main interest of the map.

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps *4735(5), BOL Gough Oxford 94, G.A. Oxon a.41(14), CUL R.1.18; BOL G.A. Oxon a.41(23) [1817: pb J. Skelton, Oxford].

Leisure and entertainment:

libraries/newsrooms

Decorative cartouches:

Title held on drape by ? angel.

Ordnance Survey's

1873-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897-8

1:2500

1:10,560