Yorks-York-1617 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18468

Map Date:

1617

Repository reference:

[University of Exeter collection]

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

York

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE603522

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 6151

Map title:

'Yorke'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from World Books (Cleveland & New York)/R.A. Skelton edition, 1966. In Braun & Hogenburg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Book VI, 2 (York, Lancaster and Shrewsbury (also view of Richmond Palace [Surrey] all on one plate, flanked by ancient and modern costumes). All text is in English. Scale measured as 1.19 inches to 200 paces, 1:10,084.

Scale:

1:10,084

Map-maker:

[Braun & Hogenburg [pb].]

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

16.5 x 16.0

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills, watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

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

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps C.7.d.1, Maps 13.e.10, BOL ash [Sutherland coll] B.II, Part IV], CUL Maps.bb.36.61.1; York Library map 5 [copy], York Minster Archives York Maps Portfolio.

Waterbodies:

shown: Waterfowl on 'pond'.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Commons:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1849-51

1:1056

1:10,560

1889

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560