Rutland-Oakham-1689 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21152

Map Date:

? 1689

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10

Historic county:

Rutland

Town name:

Oakham

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SK861098

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SK 8604

Map title:

'Oukham'.

Comments on map:

Inset on The County of Northampton together wth ye three small Counties of Bedford Hvntingdon & Rvtland exactly drawn by one scale by CS, corrected & amended with many additions by P. 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:

1:6336*

Map-maker:

[Philip Lea [pb].].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.0 x 8.5 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [?1689]; BOL Douce Prints b.28 [1689]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732].

Gardens:

shown

Crosses:

multiple crosses, (pictorial)

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Apparently ploughing to north-east of town.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

tithe barns

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:2500

1:10,560