Suffolk-Southwold-1588 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18647

Map Date:

1588

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MPF 1/138

Historic county:

Suffolk

Town name:

Southwold

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TM507764

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TM 4972

Comments on map:

Mapping of town is minimal.

Scale:

1:15,840*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

25.5 x 20.2

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, decorative

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls, (pictorial): With cannon on wall to seaward of town.

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MPF 1/138.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Map is really notable for pictorial animals, both on land (one cow, one horse, three sheep, one man with pole) and in sea: a sort of grinning whale, and a sort of giant sea-newt; two prosaic ships.

Map material:

parchment

Ordnance Survey's

1882

1:2500

1:10,560