Somerset-Bath-1689
CBTM:
21161
Map Date:
? 1689
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.21.e.10
Historic county:
Somerset
Town name:
Bath
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
ST750647
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
ST 7468
Map title:
'Bathe'.
Comments on map:
Inset on The county of Somerset exactly plotted. Published Ano. 1665, 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]:
18.8 x 15.8 [inset].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
watermills
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: The horse Bathe [pictorial, with horse on its side].
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Penal:
pillory, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
town gates, town walls, (pictorial): Gates named.
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, orchards
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [?1689]; Bath Library, Bath City RO, BOL Douce Prints b.28, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.II, Part IV [1689]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732].
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Bottom left and right: four stylised vignettes of the various baths.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ferries:
ferry: [A man on a 'raft' holding a rope across the river].
Ordnance Survey's
1882-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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