Staffordshire-Stafford-1610 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18449

Map Date:

1610

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.c.20

Historic county:

Staffordshire

Town name:

Stafford

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ921232

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 9122

Map title:

'Stafford'.

Comments on map:

Inset on 'Stafford countie and towne with the ancient citie Lichfeild described' [sic]. Scale measured as 1 inch to 200 unspecified units (presumably paces: scale therefore taken to be 1:12,000). (The original manuscript of this is in Merton College, Oxford, D.3.30, map 16, dated 30 September 1607: see Sarah Bendall, 'Draft town maps for John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine', Imago Mundi 54, 2002, 30-45 (Appendix on p.44).)

Scale:

1:12,000

Map-maker:

John Speed [sv], John Sudbury & Georg Humble, Popes Head Alley [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

12.5 x 10.0 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [the Gardner Copy: NFP] [1603-11: proof set]; BLML Maps C.7.c.20, BLML Maps C.7.c.5, BOL Gough Maps 92, Fol BS 275, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; BLML Maps 5100 (12) [1611/1876: Kelly: repub in directory]; BOL G1/C17.2/3, CUL Atlas.3.95.15 [1611/1953: John Arlott (intro), Phoenix House (pub)]; CUL Atlas.2.97.32 [1611/1975.c: N.T. Leslie pb [Rare Books] The English county maps of John Speed]; BOL C17 b.13, CUL Atlas.2.95.6 [1614/1957: pb Guildford: Charles Traylen [dated 1955 in some lists]]; BOL G.A.Staffs c.20/L3 [1611?/1969: in Stafford Maps, Local History Source Book L3, Staffs CC, 1969]; BOL Douce S subt.50, CUL Atlas 4.61.1 [1616: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL C15 c16=G24/C15.12 [1616/1988: Pavilion/Michael Joseph]; CUL Atlas 5.99.222 [1616/1995: reduced facsimile, as 1616/1988]; CUL Atlas.7.62.1, Atlas.7.64.4,2, Syn.7.62.91 [1627: 'described and abridged...': different typesettings]; CUL L*.7.10(A) [1627: A prospect of the most famous parts of the World...]; CUL Atlas.7.95.7 [1627/1951: E.G.R. Taylor, An atlas of Tudor England and Wales, Harmondsworth, King Penguin, 1951, 19 cm]; BOL Douce Prints b.24 [1627/32: Geo Humble]; CUL Atlas.4.62.2, Bury.18.2 [1631: A prospect...]; CUL Atlas.7.64.4, Atlas 7.62.2, Atlas 7.64.3 [1646: A prospect...]; CUL Atlas.7.66.3,i, Atlas.7.66.4,1 [1666: England... described]; CUL Atlas.7.67.1 [1676: England... described and abridged]; CUL Atlas.4.67.7, Qq*.1.280(AA) [2 copies], Hanson.bb.43, Ely.a.188 [1676]; CUL Maps.bb.53.67.1, Maps.bb.53.67.2 [1676: different letterpress settings]; BOL Bl.14.Jur. [1676: Bassett & Chiswell]; BOL C17 b.2 [1720.c: H. Overton]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...].

Antiquities:

Monastic sites.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Commons:

shown

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Man fishing in river to south-east of town; man ploughing against a background of molehills to north of town. Dividers above scale.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds: [Pinfold].

Ordnance Survey's

1878-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560