A 17th century townplan of Newcastle

HERMANNIDES, Rutger.

Newe Castle. Novum Castrum.
Amsterdam: Aegidius Janssonius Valckenier, c.1661. Coloured. 110 x 130mm.

Repairs to left margin.

An early plan of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, showing the outline of the streets, churches and a windmill, but without naming any features.
The plan was published in Hermannides's 'Magna Britannia' which contained thirty townplans mostly copied from the insets of John Speed's county maps.


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