Warwickshire-Warwick-1689 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21146

Map Date:

? 1689

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10

Historic county:

Warwickshire

Town name:

Warwick

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SP282649

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SP 3169

Map title:

'Warwick'.

Comments on map:

Inset on Warwick and Leicester Shires described by c.s. corrected & amended w. many additions by P. Lea, in All the shires of England and Wales described by Christopher Saxton being the best and original maps with many additions and corrections by Philip Lea, [London:] Philip Lea, n.d. Scale measured as 1 inch to 180 paces, 1:10,800. [Pasted at the front is a letter from Edward Lynam to D. Grenside, 16 November 1935, in which Lynam says it is the earliest copy he has seen and that it probably came out in the year of the licence, 1699.]

Scale:

1:10,800

Map-maker:

[Philip Lea [pb].].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.5 x 10.8 [inset].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

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

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

landmark tree: [Hodgkin's Tree: pictorial].

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.21.e.10 [?1689]; BOL Douce Prints b.28 [1689]; CUL Atlas 3.73.2 [1732].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Crosses:

cross, (pictorial)

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1887

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560