Shropshire-Shrewsbury-1610 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18451

Map Date:

[1610]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.c.20

Historic county:

Shropshire

Town name:

Shrewsbury

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ492124

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 4712

Map title:

'Shrowesbury'.

Comments on map:

Inset on 'Shropshyre described the sittuation of Shrowesbury shewed...'. Scale measured as 1.41 inches to 200 paces, 1:8511.

Scale:

1:8400

Map-maker:

John Speed [author], George Humbell [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.2 x 19.3 [inset: maximum].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Known copies of map:

CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [the Gardner Copy: NFP] [1603-11: proof set]; BLML Maps C.7.c.20, BLML Maps C.7.c.5; BOL Gough Maps 92, Fol. BS 275, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; 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)]; CUL Atlas.2.97.32 [1611/1975.c: N.T. Leslie pb [Rare Books] The English county maps of John Speed]; 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 [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...]; BOL J.Maps 230 [31] [1662: Roger Rea]; BLML Maps C.7.e.6 [1666]; 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. [1676: Bassett & Chiswell]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL C17 b.2 [1720.c: H. Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...]; BOL Gough Maps Shropshire 5 [1743: Overton]; BLML K.Top.36.16.2, [late C18/early C19 enlarged transcript by R.W.Seale, 'A plan of Shrewsbury as delineated by Mr John Speed': includes street names]; Shropshire RRC [Library] [photocopy of Searle transcript].

Industry:

textiles: [Tenters].

Antiquities:

Monastic sites.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

'molehills': Tastefully disposed.

Crosses:

cross, (pictorial)

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Dividers above scales.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1879-80

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900-01

1:2500

1:10,560