Staffordshire-Stafford-1689 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21141

Map Date:

? 1689

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10

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 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 inch to 200 paces, 1:12,000. [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:

1:12,000

Map-maker:

[Philip Lea [pb].].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

12.2 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:

town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10, BOL Douce Prints b.28.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

'molehills'

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Team ploughing to north of town.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Agricultural and animal-keeping:

pounds/pinfolds: [Pinfolde].

Miscellaneous religious group:

Graye friars.

Ordnance Survey's

1878-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560