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Oxford City and University maps

Printed maps selected from the collections of Oxfordshire History Centre

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1500 - 1599

Reference Date of survey Cartographer Title Production Presentation, scale and colour
MP:1202-MP:1209 1578-1588 Ralph Agas Agas's plan of Oxford (1578-88) Oxford Historical Society
vol XXXVIII, 1899.
(Facsimile in 8 sheets of original in Bodleian Library)		 Scenographic view
Scale ca. 1:1,650.
Black and white
National Library of Australia 1578 (1728) Ralph Agas Old Plans of Oxford Includes Agas map (1578-88), and Robert Whittlesey's re-engraving (1728).
Published: Oxford Historical Society
vol XXXVIII, 1899		 External website
MP:1190 1578 (1728) Ralph Agas Celeberrimæ Oxoniensis academiæ aularum et collegiorum Re-engraved by Robert Whittlesey, 1728 Scenographic view
Scale ca. 1:2,500
Black and white
POX0081530 1578
(1728, 1823)		 Ralph Agas Skelton's reduced engraving of the original plan of Oxford taken by Ralph Agas Re-engraved Robert Whittlesey, 1728. Published in: Joseph Skelton, Oxonia antiqua restaurata, vol. 1, 1823 Scenographic view
Scale ca. 1:4,000
Black and white
MP:1192 1578 (1732) Ralph Agas Oxonia antiqua instaurata Facsimile engraved by William Williams, 1732 Scenographic view
Scale ca. 1:2,500
Black and white
MP:1170 1578 (1831) Ralph Agas Oxonia antiqua instaurata Facsimile and reduction of Agas's 1578 survey of Oxford, engraved John Whessell; provided for comparison with Whessell's 'modern' map. Folded leaf published in: Oxford delineated, 1831. Scenographic view
Scale ca. 1:10,000
Colour

1600 - 1699

Reference Date of survey Cartographer Title Production Presentation, scale and colour
National Library of Australia 1643, 1675 Wenceslaus Hollar,
David Loggan		 Old Plans of Oxford Includes Hollar map (1643), and Loggan map (1675).
Published: Oxford Historical Society. Vol XXXVIII, 1899.		 External website
MP:141 1640s Louis Durau Plan D'Oxford, fortifié par Charles 1er Engraved plan of Oxford's Civil War defences by Durau, from L'Univers. Angleterre (4 vols) by Léon Galibert et Clément Pellé (1842-1844) Ichnographic view
Black and white
MP:139 1643 (1650) Wenceslaus Hollar (Matthaus Merian) Oxforde After Ralph Agas and Augustine Ryther, 1578. 3rd state of Hollar's first map of Oxford; also attributed to Matthaus Merian. [1st copy] Scenographic view
Scale ca. 1:6,000
Black and white
MP:1188 1643 (1650) Wenceslaus Hollar (Matthaus Merian) Oxforde After Ralph Agas and Augustine Ryther, 1578. 3rd state of Hollar's first map of Oxford; also attributed to Matthaus Merian. [2nd copy] Scenographic view
Scale ca. 1:6,000
Black and white
CH/XXIII/3 1643
(1652-1677)		 Wenceslaus Hollar Oxforde After Ralph Agas and Augustine Ryther, 1578. 2nd version of Hollar's map, produced 1652-1677, printed 1668 and 1703. [1st copy] Scenographic view
Scale ca. 1:6,000
Black and white
MP:1187 1643
(1652-1677)		 Wenceslaus Hollar Oxforde After Ralph Agas and Augustine Ryther, 1578. 2nd version of Hollar's map, produced 1652-1677, printed 1668 and 1703. [2nd copy] Scenographic view
Scale ca. 1:6,000
Black and white
MP:1189 1648 Anthony Wood Ichnographia Oxoniae Plan of Oxford's Civil War defences, in: Wood's Historia et antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis, 1674 Ichnographic view
Scale ca. 1:5,000
Black and white
MP:1191 1673 David Loggan Nova et accuratissima celeberrimae universitatis civitatisque Oxoniensis scenographia Published in his: Oxonia illustrata (1675) - a collection of engraved bird's-eye views of the colleges Scenographic view
Scale 1:3,265
Black and white

1700 - 1799

Reference Date of survey Cartographer Title Production Presentation, scale and colour
OCL:4460 1720 Benjamin Cole A map of Port Meadow, with a prospect of all the adjacent places Henry Taunt's 1907 photograph of a map in the Bodleian Library, drawn by Benjamin Cole in 1720 Manuscript.
Scale ca. 1:7,000. Black and white
COS:2006.39.26 1727 Pieter van der Aa Plan de la ville d'Oxford After David Loggan. Published in: James Beeverell, Les delices de la Grand' Bretagne, et de l'Irlande (1727) Scenographic view. Scale ca. 1:11,430. Black and white
MP:140 1733 William Williams Nova et Accuratissima Celeberrimae Universitatis Civitatisque Oxoniensis Ichnographia Engraved by William Henry Toms. Published in: Oxonia depicta (1733). Intended as an updated version of David Loggan's Oxonia illustrata (1675) Ichnographic view.
Scale: 1 inch to 90 yards.
Black and white
Bibliothèque nationale de France 1733 William Williams Nova et Accuratissima Celeberrimae Universitatis Civitatisque Oxoniensis Ichnographia Engraved by William Henry Toms. Published in: Oxonia depicta (1733). Intended as an updated version of David Loggan's Oxonia illustrata (1675). Colour-washed version. Ichnographic view.
Scale: 1 inch to 90 yards.
Colour
MP:1193 1750 Isaac Taylor To the Vice-Chancellor and Heads of Colleges, and to the High Steward, Mayor, Aldermen etc. of the University and City of Oxford, this plan is humbly inscribed George Anderton, engraver. colour-washed copy. Ichnographic view. Scale 1:2,376. Colour
MP:147.city 1761 John Rocque, Mary Rocque A plan of the City of Oxford Inset plan of the City of Oxford in: A map of the county of Berks : reduced from an actual survey in 18 sheets (1762) Sheet dissected into 6 parts.
Scale ca. 1:9,900-1:10,440.
Black and white
MP:149.city 1766-7 Thomas Jefferys Plan of the University and City of Oxford Inset plan of the City of Oxford in: The county of Oxford (surveyed 1766-1767, engraved 1768, published 1769). [1st copy]. Sheet dissected into 6 parts and folded.
Scale 1 in to 6.5 chains, ca. 1:5,000.
Black and white
MP:1174.city 1766-7 Thomas Jefferys Plan of the University and City of Oxford Inset plan of the City of Oxford in: The county of Oxford (surveyed 1766-1767, engraved 1768, published 1769). [2nd copy]. Sheet dissected into 6 parts and folded.
Scale 1 in to 6.5 chains, ca. 1:5,000.
Black and white
MP:1171 1768 B. Green A plan of the University and City of Oxford Folded leaf in: A pocket companion for Oxford Single sheet, folded.
Scale ca. 1:19,000.
Black and white
MP:1156 1773 Barak Longmate New Map of the City of Oxford Folded frontispiece in: The antient and present state of the City of Oxford, by Anthony Wood, Sir J. Peshall Single sheet, folded.
Scale ca. 1:4,900.
Black and white
MP:1194 1789 William Faden Plan of the City of Oxford (based on Taylor 1750) Faden's re-engraving of Isaac Taylor's map of 1750, updated to reflect changes on the ground. [1st copy] Single sheet.
Scale ca. 1 inch to 3 chains, 1:2,376.
Black and white
MP:1194 1789 William Faden Plan of the City of Oxford (based on Taylor 1750) Faden's re-engraving of Isaac Taylor's map of 1750, updated to reflect changes on the ground. [2nd copy] Single sheet.
Scale ca. 1 inch to 3 chains, 1:2,376.
Black and white
MP:1175.city 1793-4 Richard Davis A plan of the University and City of Oxford Inset plan of Oxford city from his: A new map of the County of Oxford (1797) Sheet in atlas.
Scale 1:2,640.
Black and white

1800 - 1899

Reference Date of survey Cartographer Title Production Presentation, scale and colour
MP:1169 1831 John Whessell A new and improved map of the university and city of Oxford Map drawn and engraved for: J. Whessell and T. Bartlett, Oxford delineated, 1831 Single sheet, folded.
Scale ca. 1:10,000.
Colour
MPC:821 1832 Henry Dixon Plan A of the Parish of St Giles in the suburbs of the City of Oxford in the County of Oxford referred to in the annexed award Inclosure map of St Giles' Parish, Oxford Manuscript, single sheet.
Scale 1 inch to 6 chains, or 1:4,752.
Colour
MPC:866 1832 Henry Dixon Plan B of Allotments set out to, and old inclosures of, Saint John's College and their lessees Inclosure map of St Giles' Parish, Oxford Manuscript, single sheet.
Scale 1 inch to 1 chain, or 1:792.
Colour
MPC:673 1832 Henry Dixon Plan C [allotments alongside Summertown inclosures, Banbury Road] Inclosure map of St Giles' Parish, Oxford Manuscript, single sheet.
Scale 1 inch to 1 chain, or 1:792.
Colour
MPC:771 1832 As to the localities of the Disease [cholera] in Oxford Plan of the 1832 Oxford cholera outbreak, covering the areas of the Castle, St Ebbe's, St Aldate's and Grandpont Manuscript, single sheet.
Black and white
Stanford University Libraries 1848 William P. Ormerod Plan of Oxford Shewing the Parts Visited by Cholera and Fever Map accompanying Ormerod's public health report: On the sanatory condition of Oxford, 1848 Digital image on external website.
Single sheet.
Colour
CH/XXIV/39 1850 Robert Hoggar Plan of the city of Oxford, from actual survey Map produced for the Oxford Paving Commissioners' sanitary inquiry of 1851 [1st copy] Sheet dissected into 48 parts and folded.
Scale 1 inch to 44 ft, or 1:1584.
Black and white
MP:185 1850 Robert Hoggar Plan of the city of Oxford, from actual survey Map produced for the Oxford Paving Commissioners' sanitary inquiry of 1851 [2nd copy] Sheet dissected into 4 parts.
Scale 1 inch to 44 ft, or 1:1584.
Black and white
MPC:1264 1852 George P. Hester An account of the city boundary [map] Sketch map and notebook produced by Oxford Town Clerk, surveying the city boundary in support of the Mayor's annual riding of the franchise.
View pdf of complete map and notebook.		 Manuscript map in 15 sections, digitally stitched into single composite map.
Colour
COS:2006.69.1 1854 Henry W. Acland Map of Oxford, to illustrate Dr. Acland's Memoir on cholera in Oxford in 1854 Map faces title page in: Memoir on the cholera at Oxford, in the year 1854 (1856). [1st copy] Single sheet, folded.
Scale ca. 1:5,000.
Colour
MP:1210 1854 Henry W. Acland Map of Oxford, to illustrate Dr. Acland's Memoir on cholera in Oxford in 1854 Map faces title page in: Memoir on the cholera at Oxford, in the year 1854 (1856). [2nd copy] Single sheet, folded.
Scale ca. 1:5,000.
Colour
Stanford University Libraries 1854 Henry W. Acland Map of Oxford, to illustrate Dr. Acland's Memoir on cholera in Oxford in 1854 Map faces title page in: Memoir on the cholera at Oxford, in the year 1854 (1856). Digital image on external website.
Scale ca. 1:5,000.
Colour
MP:341 1860 William Joy Plan of Port Meadow near Oxford Plan of Port Meadow, with the line of the railway, River Thames, and city boundary Single sheet, folded.
Colour
COS:995.238 1876 Ordnance Survey Town plans of Oxford The first large scale Ordnance Survey plans of the city 37 separate sheets, presented via a graphical index.
Scale 10.56 ft to 1 mile, or 1:500.
Black and white
MP:1246 1879 Oxford Building and Investment Company Grandpont estate map Plan of house building plots for auction, 1 October 1879, in Grandpont, South Oxford Single sheet.
Colour
MP:1211 1883 W.H. White, Surveyor to Oxford Local Board Plan of Oxford Local Board District Compiled from 1876 Ordnance Survey maps, from tracings compiled by Town Clerk, George Hester, and from inspection of boundary stones Single sheet, dissected and folded.
Scale: 1 foot to 1 mile, or 1:5,280.
Colour
MP:182 1888 Henry W. Taunt and Co. Oxford, by Henry Taunt Street plan of Oxford, [from Taunt manuscript collection: TAUNT/183] Single sheet.
Black and white
SANDa/352.6 1899 W.H. White, City Engineer Oxford Corporation. Sewage farm, etc. Map of sewage lands, roads, paths, and buildings in Minchery Farm and Blackbird Leys area Single sheet.
Scale 1:6,336.
Colour

1900 - 1999

Reference Date of survey Cartographer Title Production Presentation, scale and colour
MP:1164 1919 Ordnance Survey City of Oxford Town Map series Coloured composite map of city, created from sheets in the six-inch series Single sheet.
Scale 1:10,560.
Colour
MPC:1225 c. 1929 Cook, Hammond & Kell Ltd Oxford City Extension map Coloured boundary map, following Oxford Extension Act 1928 Single sheet.
Scale 1:10,560.
Colour
SANDa/352.6 1933 Oxford Corporation. City Engineer's Office. City of Oxford. Sewage farm. Map of sewage lands, roads, paths, and buildings in Minchery Farm and Blackbird Leys area Single sheet.
Scale 1:6,336.
Colour
MP:1195 1972 General Staff of the Soviet Army. Military Topographic Directorate. M-30-10 Oksford Cold War era map of the Oxford area in Cyrillic script Single sheet in 2 parts.
Scale 1:10,000.
Colour
MP:1196, MP:1197 1974-78 General Staff of the Soviet Army. Military Topographic Directorate. M-30-10-V Witney and M-30-10-G Oxford Cold War era maps of the Oxford region in Cyrillic script 2 sheets.
Scale 1:50,000.
Colour