Warwickshire-Coventry-1691 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19653

Map Date:

1691

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 1112 (3)

Historic county:

Warwickshire

Town name:

Coventry

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP335790

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 3480

Map title:

[In panel, in evidently different hand:] 'An imperfect ground plott of the city of Coventre, began by Mr Alexander Forbes. A.D. 1691.'

Comments on map:

On a sheet with finished and coloured plans of Chester, Nantwich and Newcastle-under-Lyme, and finished but uncoloured of 'Galloway', i.e. Galway, 1690. Churches, streets and walls with towers only; title, reference, scale and arms cartouches in outline only: very much an unfinished plan.

Scale:

1:7128*

Map-maker:

Alexander Forbes [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

32.3 x 21.7

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

town gates, town walls

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 1112(3).

Ordnance Survey's

1888-9

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560