Yorks-Kingston upon Hull-1640 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19383

Map Date:

? 1640

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.44.32

Historic county:

Yorks, East Riding

Town name:

Kingston upon Hull

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TA099286

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TA 0835

Map title:

'Kyngeston vpon Hull'.

Scale:

1:6600

Map-maker:

W. Hollar [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

30.7 x 26.3

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

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

Known copies of map:

BL 669.f.6 (21), BLML K.Top.44.32, Hull City Archives, BOL Gough Maps Yorkshire 5, Gough Maps Yorkshire 6, Gough Maps Yorkshire 46, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.I, Part VI, CUL Maps.bb.93.64.1, RGS Eng & Wales S/S 158 originals]; BOL Gough Yorks 10 [1788: in G. Hadley, A new and complete history of... Hull, fp.682]; BOL Gough Yorks 64, Douce C Subt 58 p.893 [1796: engr J.Taylor: in Tickell's history of Hull, fp.203]; BL 2367.c.8, Hull Library [multiple copies], Sheffield Archives OD 1261 (engr I. Taylor, w/m 1807) [1638/1798, in History of Kingston-upon-Hull]; Hull City Archives [1859: pub Holder]; BOL G.A.Yorks 8o 121(4) [1867: in J.Symons, Visitors Descriptive Guide Book to Kingston-upon-Hill, pb Kent & Co., 1867]; Hull City Archives [n.d., C20, With the compliments of Archibald & Johnson, Ltd. Hull.'; TNA [PRO] Library [in Hugh Calvert, A history of Kingston upon Hull, Chichester: Phillimore, 1978, frontispiece]; BOL 247124 c.4 [1980: in Graham Parry, Hollar's England]; BOL 22856 e.309 [1987: in Pamela McNichol, The sieges of Kingston upon Hull..., pb Kingston upon Hull City Council].

Antiquities:

Former monastic sites.

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

At top: Panorama of 'The towne of Hull'; bottom right: location map in relation to Lincoln, York and Nottingham, about 1:1.7 million.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Lots of shipping in rivers Hull and Humber.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ferries:

landings: 'the olde ferye place'.

Stated measuerments:

other: Note that 'This Humbre is broad against this Towne, 2 miles or better.'

Ordnance Survey's

1853

1:1056

1:10,560

1888-90

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560