Warwickshire-Coventry-1650 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22826

Map Date:

? 1650

Repository reference:

BL Add. MS. 11564 ('9' [recte fols 18-19])

Historic county:

Warwickshire

Town name:

Coventry

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP335790

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 3480

Map title:

'Plan de Coventre'.

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. No text, other than title.

Scale:

1:4000*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

66.3 x 48.3

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, decorative

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised: Omitted within walls.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

BL Add. MS. 11564.

Gardens:

shown: [Orchard-like].

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

'molehills'

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Animals in fields to west; horses and men with staffs on approach roads.

Ordnance Survey's

1888-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560