Maps of Aldringham cum Thorpe

Maps of Aldringham cum Thorpe

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Suffolk LX.SE - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Suffolk LX.SE - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Suffolk LX.SE - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Suffolk LX.SE - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Suffolk LX.SE - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Parte of Aldebroughe

This is a coloured map of Aldeburgh in Suffolk. It is probably a copy of an earlier map. It dates from the 1500s but a more specific date and information of the draughtsman remain unknown. It is clear from the details included here that the draughtsman was concerned with defence. The placement of cannons is recorded, as are two beacons, three windmills and a towered church which could also be used as vantage points. The large blank area in the middle of the drawing also reveals that the draughtmans primary concern was with the coastal extremity of the area. The layout of the area of the town closest to the sea is shown, with differentiation made between larger and more modest dwellings. The map may be the result f a programme of coastal survey initiated by Henry VIII after a peace treaty was signed by Francis I of France and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, making an invasion by their combined forces probable. England and France were ancient enemies and the Catholic Charles V, nephew of Catherine of Aragon, was angered by Henry VIII’s decision to divorce Catherine. Henry’s dissolution of the monasteries provided him with enormous wealth with which he was able to commission surveys of the vulnerable coastline and build defence fortifications.
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Suffolk LX.16 (includes: Aldeburgh) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Suffolk LX.16 (includes: Aldeburgh) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Suffolk LX.16 (includes: Aldeburgh) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Suffolk LX.15 (includes: Aldeburgh; Friston; Iken) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Suffolk LX.15 (includes: Aldeburgh; Friston; Iken) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Suffolk LX.15 (includes: Aldeburgh; Friston; Iken) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Suffolk LX.12 (includes: Aldeburgh; Aldringham with Thorpe) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Suffolk LX.12 (includes: Aldeburgh; Aldringham with Thorpe) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Suffolk LX.11 (includes: Aldeburgh; Friston) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Suffolk LX.11 (includes: Aldeburgh; Friston) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Suffolk LX.11 (includes: Aldeburgh; Friston) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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TM45 - OS 1:25,000 Provisional Series Map

1 : 25000 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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A Coloured Chart of the Coast of Suffolk, from Bawdseye to Thorpe, including Orford and Aldborough

This is a map of the Suffolk coast from Bawdseye to Thorpe. It includes detailed depictions of Orford and Aldeburgh. It is thought to date from between 1575-1600. Whimsically picturesque in style, topographical features are recorded pictorially. Individual architectural features such as Orford castle, village churches and windmills are carefully detailed and all manner of sailing vessels crowd the waterways. However, the purpose of the map is to provide a record of the layout and defensive capacity of the area. The inlets and tributaries of the waterways are recorded as are the sands and channels of the coast. Beacons are shown, with one atop the castle at Orford , built by Henry II in the 1160’s to guard what was then a busy port. The prominence of the windmills is probably due to the fact that they could also be used as vantage points due to their height. Aldeburgh (Albwrghe) is shown as a heavily fortified settlement with cannons occupying a pier and located at intervals along the adjacent sands. As well as two beacons, two windmills and a church are also shown at Aldeburgh all useful due to their height and therefore view of the sea. It is likely that the map was drawn in connection with the contemporary threat from Spain. Since the accession of the Protestant Elizabeth I to the English throne in 1558 Anglo-Spanish relationship had deteriorated. The continued English raids on Spanish colonial interests and England’s support of the Protestant rebellion in the Spanish ruled Netherlands had induced the Catholic Philip II to launch the 1588 Spanish Armada. Although the Spanish Armada was defeated by the English in 1588, England remained at war with Spain for many years and further attempts to invade were made by Philip of Spain with the dispersal of a second Armada’ in October 1596 and the assembly of the third Armada’ in the following spring. In this climate it was naturally coastal areas that were under the closest scrutiny.
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Saxmundham (Outline) - OS One-Inch Revised New Series

1 : 63360 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Saxmundham (Hills) - OS One-Inch Revised New Series

1 : 63360 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Orford(002OSD000000026U00277000)

1 : 31680 This partly finished plan of the Suffolk coastline shows only roads and settlements to the left, but land use and relief detail have been added to the right. Original protraction lines remain in pencil: these represent the first plottings from the field book of the area. The handwritten note pasted at the bottom of the plan may have been trimmed from the margin. Metcalf, Edward B
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Ipswitch - OS One-Inch Map

1 : 63360 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Lowestoft - OS One-Inch Map

1 : 63360 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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A Coloured Chart of the Coast of Suffolk, from Orwell Haven to Gorlston, near Yarmouth

This is a map of the Suffolk coast stretching from Orwell Haven to Godeston near Yarmouth. It details the defences of the area may be part of the coastal survey of 1539. Fortification of large sections of coast was carried out at this time as Henry VIII feared an invasion from the combined forces of France and Spain. In 1538 Francis I of France, and Charles V Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain signed a peace treaty. This union gave rise to the possibility that France and Spain may combine forces to invade England. France was England’s historical enemy and Henry VIII’s divorce of Catherine of Aragon, Charles V’s aunt, had offended the militantly catholic King of Spain. The map includes a vignette view of Ipswich, and a depiction of Orford Castle, built by Henry II in the 1160’s to guard what was then a busy port. Here a beacon is shown on the battlements, indicating that the castle, built on raised grown, has been incorporated into the early warning system that is depicted along the coast by numerous beacons. Two round tower forts are shown with gun ports and extended cannons. Such a large scale fortification plan was greatly aided by the significant advances in cartography and surveying which occurred in the Tudor period. The vast wealth Henry VIII had at his disposal after the dissolution of the monasteries provided the necessary finances for the survey.
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Suffolk, Sheet 20 - Bartholomew's "Half Inch to the Mile Maps" of England & Wales

1 : 126720 Topographic maps Bartholomew, John George John Bartholomew & Co
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Suffolcia vernacula Suffolke

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 36 x 47 cm Valck; Schenk penes Gerardum Valk et Petrum Schenk
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Svffolcia, vernacule Svffolke

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 37 x 48 cm Blaeu Joan Blaeu
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An accurate map of the county of Suffolk

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 50 x 69 cm Bowen; Hinton sold by I. Hinton at the Kings Arms in St. Pauls Church Yard
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Sheets 35-36. (Cary's England, Wales, and Scotland).

1 : 360000 Cary, John, ca. 1754-1835
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