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Staffordshire-Lichfield-1689

CBTM:
21142
Map Date:
? 1689
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.21.e.10
Historic county:
Staffordshire
Town name:
Lichfield
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SK118096
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SK 1807
Map title:
'Lichfield'.
Comments on map:
Inset on Stafford Discribed by C.S corrected and amended with many 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. Scale measured as 1.3 inches to 200 paces, i.e. about 1:11,077 if a 60-inch pace is used. [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:
1:11,077
Map-maker:
[Philip Lea [pb].].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
12.0 x 10.0 [inset].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
watermills
Sanitary and utility information:
conduits: One only.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Defence and military:
town gates, town walls, (pictorial): Round minster.
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals
Education and academic:
schools
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps C.21.e.10, BOL Douce Prints b.28 [1689]; BOL G.A.Staffs c20/L6 [1970: Lichfield maps, Local History source book L.6: Staffs CC Edcn Dept].
Waterbodies:
shown: With water-fowl.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Crosses:
cross, (pictorial)
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Cattle to east of city; further north is a man with a pole; in north-east a wagon seems to be going across the fields.
Arms and heraldry:
ecclesiastical, municipal
Miscellaneous religious group:
Friery.
Ordnance Survey's
1882
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1900
1:2500
1:10,560
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