Shropshire-Shrewsbury-1689 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21143

Map Date:

? 1689

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10

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

Comments on map:

Inset on Shrowshire accuratly drawen and sett forth by CS corrected with some 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:

1:9000*

Map-maker:

[Philip Lea [pb].].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

10.8 x 12.7 [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): Gates named.

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

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

Industry:

uncertain: Possible tenters by river.

Gardens:

shown: [Out-of-town ones].

Relief:

'molehills'

Crosses:

cross, (pictorial)

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1879-80

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900-01

1:2500

1:10,560