Shropshire-Shrewsbury-1580 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23401

Map Date:

? 1580

Repository reference:

BL Royal MS 18.D.iii, ff89v-90

Historic county:

Shropshire

Town name:

Shrewsbury

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ492124

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 4712

Map title:

'Salopia.'

Comments on map:

Included in the 'Burghley Atlas': entry from P.D.A. Harvey, Maps in Tudor England, London: Public Record Office, British Library, 1993, pp 70-1.

Scale:

1:6000*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

24.0 x 19.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, land-use

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Water transport infrastructure:

jetties: Pictorial boats and swans on river.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

BL Royal MS 18.D.iii, ff 89v-90 [MS original]; Shropshire RRC [Library] [coloured transcript: Day & Son, Lithogrs to the Queen: 'The Burghley Map of Shrewsbury']; BOL G.24.C17.22 [1993: in P.D.A. Harvey, Maps in Tudor England, pb TNA [PRO] & BL, fig.48].

Gardens:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1879-80

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900-01

1:2500

1:10,560