Suffolk-Dunwich-1753
CBTM:
20624
Map Date:
5.2.1753
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.39.15
Historic county:
Suffolk
Town name:
Dunwich
Map type:
Historical
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TM478706
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TM 4972
Map title:
'A plan exhibiting the remains of the antient City of Dunwich, A.D.1587...'
Comments on map:
Seven vignettes, two maps: one at 1 inch to 100 paces* [1:6000, but 1:24,000 would be more accurate], extending to Southwold [church only shown], the other [to which this record relates] with scale of 100, possibly paces, i.e. 1:2400, though 1:9600 fits a comparion with Ordnance Survey. A hybrid: dotted line shows 'Present Cliff'. Published in Thos Gardner, An historical account of Dunwich, 1754.
Scale:
1:9600
Map-maker:
[Ralph Agas [sv]], Josa. Kirby [dr], J. Wood [eng], Thos Gardner [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
70.0 x 52.0
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
fragmentary
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Water transport infrastructure:
quays: Old Key, Old Port.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
BLML K.Top. 39(15), BL 578.g.14, CUL P477.c.22.18 [1927 repro], East Suffolk RO MC4/48, 6945, East Suffolk RO HA.11/E1/5.
Antiquities:
Numerous monastic remains.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
To left and right: Dunwich, St James, Blythburgh, Southwold and Walberswick churches, Blythburgh priory, North prospect of Dunwich.
Relief:
'molehills': Cock Hills, Hen Hills.
Borders:
decorative
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial shipping.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ferries:
ferry
Dedicee of map:
Society of the Antiquarians of London.
Ordnance Survey's
1882
1:2500
1:10,560
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