Suffolk-Ipswich-1698
CBTM:
22174
Map Date:
1698
Repository reference:
Suffolk RO [Ipswich] MC 3/2
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:
'The Borough Corporation of Ipswich in Com. Suff. Actually Surveyed and deleneated, ao. 1674, by John Ogilby Esqr. his Maties. Cosmographer.'
Comments on map:
Engraved and published in 1698. '1674' appears both in the title and on the banner behind the dividers of the scale.
Scale:
1:1200
Map-maker:
John Ogilby [sv], Thomas Steward, Brook St, Ipswich [eng, pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
157 x 115
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised
Mills:
windmills, watermills, (pictorial)
Water transport infrastructure:
quays
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
BLML K.39.20.11.Tab.End., BOL Gough Maps Suffolk 3, 4 [2 copies], CUL Atlas.3.69.5; East Suffolk RO HD 309; East Suffolk RO MC 3/2, 7AA1/22/1,2 (photos).
Industry:
bricks/tiles, ship yards, rope walk, timber
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
libraries/newsrooms
Landowners and occupiers:
notable residents
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative: Rococco: round title, title of prospect, reference to streets and buildings, and scale.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top right: south-east prospect; on left and right: 14 views of churches and of Sir William Barker's and Lord Hereford's houses.
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial shipping in river.
Arms and heraldry:
royal arms, municipal: [Royal top left: town above reference, on left].
Dedicee of map:
Bayliffs, burgesses and commonlty of town.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
misc: Land-use of unbuilt-on fields is noted.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1880-1
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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