Somerset-Castle Cary-1670 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23404

Map Date:

? 1670

Repository reference:

Somerset RO T/PH/bm 32

Historic county:

Somerset

Town name:

Castle Cary

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

ST640322

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ST 6931

Map title:

'An accurate mapp of ye mannor of Castle Cary... by John Ward teacher of ye mathematicks at William Sare's house in Ratcliffe Merchant'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from full-size photographic copy. Dated c.1650-70 in Somerset RO list. Areas outside built-up part are numbered, with reference round edges, but 'town' part is not. Scale of perches.

Scale:

1:6336

Map-maker:

John Ward, Teacher of Mathematics [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

105 x 127

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, land-use, owners, decorative

Buildings:

shown

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Somerset RO T/PH/bm 32

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Round title and scale.

Symbolic elements:

Surveyors: with globes and other instruments, above scale.

Map material:

parchment

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1884

1:2500

1:10,560