Staffordshire-Stafford-1690 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19734

Map Date:

[1690]

Repository reference:

BLML Maps c.27.e.3(3)

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:

'Staffordia. Stafford.'

Comments on map:

Attribution to Beer and dating to 1690 [rather than to Matthias Merian and dating to 1650] are via D. Smith, 'The enduring image of early British townscapes', Cartographic Journal 28 (1991), 163-175 (esp. p. 169), and Raymond Frostrick, The printed plans of Norwich (2002), p.19. The British Library copies of Exeter 18302 and 19732-19745 are in a modern bound volume without title-page or any other identification. The only text on the map is in the title. [BLML '1967' catalogue suggests ? Matthias Merian, Frankfort.]

Scale:

1:12,000*

Map-maker:

[Johnann Christoph Beer, Nurnburg [author]].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.0 x 16.3

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps c.27.e.3, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.II, Part II; BL 577.f.2, CUL F169.c.1.1 [1690: J.C. Beer: in Das neu-geharnischte Fross-Britannien, f.p. 72]; BOL G.A.Stafford 4o 6 [pb Cadell & Davies, from New geharn..., in The history and antiquities of the church and city of Lichfield].

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

At bottom of map: men on horses and ? pikemen.

Relief:

'molehills'

Crosses:

CP

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Grazing cattle to west of town, and man ploughing to north-east.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1878-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1900

1:2500

1:10,560