Somerset-Bath-1588 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21401

Map Date:

[1588]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 29.b.44

Historic county:

Somerset

Town name:

Bath

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST750647

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 7468

Map title:

'Bath.'

Comments on map:

From Henry B. Wheatley and Edmund W. Ashbee, The particular description of England, 1588... by William Smith, Rouge Dragon, London: 'Printed for subscribers only', 1879, Plate XXI.

Scale:

1:12,000*

Map-maker:

[William Smith [author].]

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.7 x 11.8

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, general highlighting of district, decorative: Green ground-tint.

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BL Sloane MSS no.2596 [MS original]; Bath City RO, BLML Maps 29.b.44, BOL G.A.Gen.Top 4o 265 [1588/1879]; CUL Maps.BB.84.88.1 [1912]; Bath Library W/9/56, W19/57 [photos].

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa

Magnetic data:

diagram: 'Needle' points to magnetic north.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1882-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560