Warwickshire-Coventry-1610 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18445

Map Date:

1610

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.7.c.20

Historic county:

Warwickshire

Town name:

Coventry

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP335790

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 3480

Map title:

'Coventree'.

Comments on map:

Inset on 'The counti of Warwick the shire towne and citie of Coventre described'.

Scale:

1:10,560*

Map-maker:

John Speed [sv], Jodocus Hondius [eng], John Sudbury & George Humble, Popes Head Alley against the Exchange [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.7 x 10.8 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Named wells.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

CUL Atlas.2.61.1 [the Gardner Copy: NFP] [1603-11: proof set]; BLML Maps C.7.c.20, BLML Maps C.7.c.5, BOL Gough Maps 92, CUL L*.7.8(AA) [1611: Sudbury & Humble]; BLML Maps 5500(12), CUL Maps.bb.30.01 [1611/1876: Kelly: repub in directory]; CUL Maps.bb.30.02 [1611/1923-6: Kelly: repub in directory]; BOL G1/C17.2/3, CUL Atlas.3.95.15 [1611/1954: John Arlott (intro), Phoenix House (pub)]; CUL Atlas.2.97.32 [1611/1975.c: N.T. Leslie pb [Rare Books] The English county maps of John Speed]; BOL C17 b.13, CUL Atlas.2.95.6 [1614/1957: pb Guildford: Charles Traylen [dated 1955 in some lists]]; BOL (E)C17:59(32) [1611/1971: Kelly: repub in directory]; BOL Douce S subt. 50, CUL Atlas 4.61.1 [1616: Sudbury & Humble]; BOL C15 c16 = G24/ C125.12 [1616/1988: Pavilion/Michael Joseph]; CUL Atlas 5.99.222 [1616/1995: reduced facsimile, as 1616/1988]; CUL Atlas.7.62.1, Atlas.7.64.4,2, Syn.7.62.91 [1627: 'described and abridged...': different typesettings]; CUL L*.7.10(A) [1627: A prospect of the most famous parts of the World...]; CUL Atlas.7.95.7 [1627/1951: E.G.R. Taylor, An atlas of Tudor England and Wales, Harmondsworth, King Penguin, 1951, 19 cm]; BOL Douce Prints b.24 [1627/32: Humble]; CUL Atlas.4.62.2, Bury.18.2 [1631: A prospect...]; CUL Atlas.7.64.4, Atlas 7.62.2, Atlas 7.64.3 [1646: A prospect...]; BOL Gough Maps Warwickshire 4 [1662: Rea]; CUL Atlas.7.66.3,i, Atlas.7.66.4,1 [1666: England... described]; CUL Atlas.7.67.1 [1676: England... described and abridged]; CUL Atlas.4.67.7, Qq*.1.280(AA) [2 copies], Hanson.bb.43, Ely.a.188 [1676]; CUL Maps.bb.53.67.1, Maps.bb.53.67.2 [1676: different letterpress settings]; BOL Gough Maps Warwickshire 5 [1676: Bassett & Chiswell]; TNA [PRO] MPZ 1/21 [1710-13.c: Overton]; BOL C17 b.2 [1720.c: H. Overton]; CUL Atlas.3.74.3 [1743: England fully described...]; CUL S474.b.92.43 [1927 repro]; Coventry Library 895/2, 998/1; Coventry Library 1691/25/2 [reproduction]; Warwickshire RO, M.B.Cov.[1610]/1 [cut from county map].

Antiquities:

Monastic sites.

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Crosses:

cross, named, (pictorial)

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Man and dog coming along road from south-east.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Retail activity:

limited range: Iron Monger.

Ordnance Survey's

1888-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560