English: A 1478 Robert Ricart map of Bristol, England. Ricart was the common clerk of Bristol from 1478 to 1506.
The map was published in the The Maire of Bristowe is Kalendar (dated c.1479). The original is in the folio Ricart's Maiores Kalendar and The Lord Mayors Calendar whose physical copy is at Bristol Record Office, B Bond Warehouse, Smeaton Road, Bristol BS1 6XN. The document is reference number 04720 in the Office's catalogue.
This bird's-eye plan of Bristol is the earliest known of a complete town. It depicts churches and houses surrounded by city walls and gates: St Nicholas's Gate bottom right; St Leonard's Gate bottom left; St John's Gate top left; and Porta Nova (the New Gate) top right. Shown are the main streets of Broad Street, Wine Street, Corn Street and High Street, converging on the High Cross (Alta Crux, St Andrew's Cross), the place of executions. Text (in modern English):
St John's Gate, St Leonard's Gate, and the New Gate, and ... was built not many years after and then Deynise (?) repaired home overseas into his own lordship of Burgoyne and there abode all his life and King Bellyne abode at New Troy (i.e. London?) and built there a noble gate by the Water of Thames and called it Billingsgate after his own name and reigned nobly all his life and ... at New Troy"