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Warwickshire-Coventry-1656

CBTM:
18322
Map Date:
[1656]
Repository reference:
[Private collection]
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:
'The ground plott of Coventre'.
Comments on map:
In William Dugdale, The antiquities of Warwickshire..., London: Osborn, Longman, etc, 1730, fp.134-5. Scale about 1 inch to 110 paces, 1:6600.
Scale:
1:6600
Map-maker:
W. Hollar [dr].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
23.0 x 16.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Defence and military:
town gates, town walls, (pictorial)
Education and academic:
schools
Known copies of map:
BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.I, Part VII, BOL Gough Warwick 22, Warwickshire RO M.B.Cov.1656 [1656]; BOL Gough Warwick 20 [1730: 2nd edn]; BOL G.A.Warwicks c.7, CUL Ll.10.54 [1765: John Jones, Coventry]; CUL 476.8.90.3 [in F.Smith: Coventry: 600 years of municipal life, 1945]; Warwickshire RO M.B.Cov.1610/2 [modern repro].
Gardens:
shown
Antiquities:
Monastic remains.
Waterbodies:
shown
Crosses:
multiple crosses
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1888-9
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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