Worcestershire-Worcester-1680 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20188

Map Date:

1680

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.XLIII.65, G.3552

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:

'An exact Ground-plot of ye City of Worcester as it stood fortifyd 3 Sept 1651'.

Comments on map:

F.p.1 of Boscobel: or the compleat history of his sacred majesties most miraculous preservation after the Battle of Worcester, 3 Sept. 1651.', 3rd edition, London: Brome, Harper, 1680. Something of a residual birds-eye-view feel about it.

Scale:

1:3960*

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

36.5 x 26.5

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial: Strings-of-gables style.

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls, (pictorial): [Elevations of guns on bastions, conventionalised pictorial depiction of battle on east and south sides].

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML G.3552; BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.III, Part V; CUL Keynes.S.1.8 [1680]; BLML K.Top.43.65.1, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] B.I, Part II, CUL Maps.bb.17.G.109 loose copies]; BL 599.c.29, 807.a.8, G.3531, BOL Gough Worcs 20 [Blount ed 4, 1725]; BL 10806.aaa.19, BOL Gough Worcs 21 [in Boscobel, p.64] [1769: Gamidge, reengr, 275 x 210 mm].

Gardens:

shown

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Waterhouse.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Shipping in river.

Arms and heraldry:

royal arms, municipal, uncertain: Four: two not identified.

Ordnance Survey's

1886

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560