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Suffolk-Ipswich-1689

CBTM:
21155
Map Date:
? 1689
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.21.e.10
Historic county:
Suffolk
Town name:
Ipswich
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TM165445
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TM 1646
Map title:
'Ipswich.'
Comments on map:
Inset on Suffolke described by CS corrected and amended 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 1.1 inches to 200 paces, 1:10,910. [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:
1:10,910
Map-maker:
[Philip Lea [pb].].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
14.8 x 11.7 [inset: maximum].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
important roads only
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
watermills: Named.
Water transport infrastructure:
quays
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Penal:
misc: ? pictorial pillory [on Corne hill].
Welfare and charitable:
almshouses, hospitals
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [?1689]; BOL Douce Prints b.28, East Suffolk RO X1/6/3 [1689]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732].
Industry:
textiles: [Indicated by pictorial tenters].
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Relief:
'molehills'
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial shipping in river.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Miscellaneous religious group:
Monastic sites.
Ordnance Survey's
1880-1
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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