Yorks-York-1650 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22828

Map Date:

? 1650

Repository reference:

BL Add. MS. 11564 ('11' [recte fols 22-23])

Historic county:

Yorks, West Riding

Town name:

York

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SE603522

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SE 6151

Map title:

'Plan de Yorke'.

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 85 'pas' (1:5100 if a 60-inch pace is used).

Scale:

1:5100

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

62.3 x 45.3

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, decorative

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised: Omitted within walls.

Mills:

windmills, watermills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): [Gates named].

Education and academic:

schools

Known copies of map:

BL Add. MS. 11564.

Antiquities:

Monastic remains.

Waterbodies:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1849-51

1:1056

1:10,560

1889

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560