Sussex-Chichester-1650
CBTM:
22824
Map Date:
? 1650
Repository reference:
BL Add. MS. 11564 ('7' [recte fols 14-15])
Historic county:
Sussex
Town name:
Chichester
Map type:
Military
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SU860048
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SU 8607
Map title:
'Plan de Chichester.'
Comments on map:
Evidently derived from Speed. In a volume, untitled, of 116 manuscript 'town plans' of Europe, in which the main interest seems to be in the fortifications and buildings outside the walls, rather than in building-up within the walls. Text is in French.
Scale:
1:4500*
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
56.0 x 40.5
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, land-use, decorative
Buildings:
some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): [Gates named].
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
BL Add. MS. 11564.
Antiquities:
Greyfriers.
Ordnance Survey's
1874
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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