Staffordshire-Stafford-1661 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21372

Map Date:

[1661]

Repository reference:

BL 796.a.5

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:

[Inside cartouche:] 'Staffordia.' [Outside cartouche:] 'Stafford.'

Comments on map:

In R. Hermannidae, Britannia Magna, Amsterdam, 1661, f.p. 204. Marked lack of text.

Scale:

1:12,000*

Map-maker:

[R. Hermannidae [author].]

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

12.8 x 11.0

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

watermills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BL 796.a.5, BOL Gough Gen. Top. 93, CUL Syn.8.66.24.

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

'molehills'

Crosses:

cross, (pictorial)

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Animals in fields; ploughing to north of town. Stumpy tree and two figures bottom left: an addition to Speed.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1878-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560