Worcestershire-Worcester-1650 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22818

Map Date:

? 1650

Repository reference:

BL Add. MS. 11564 ('1' [recte fols 2-3])

Historic county:

Worcestershire

Town name:

Worcester

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SO851547

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SO 8853

Map title:

'Plan de Worcester'.

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. Text is in French. Scale measured as 1 inch to 62 'pas' (1:3720 if a 60-inch pace is used).

Scale:

1:3720

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

54.7 x 40.3

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)

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

town gates, town walls, (pictorial): [Gates named].

Known copies of map:

BL Add. MS. 11564.

Gardens:

shown: [Orchard-like].

Relief:

'molehills'

Ordnance Survey's

1886

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560