Kent-Sheerness: Blue Town-1830 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18617

Map Date:

1.11.1830

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/1343

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Sheerness: Blue Town

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ913752

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 8968

Map title:

'Plan of Sheerness, from a survey made in the year 1821 by Lieut White R.E. corrected to the 1st. of Novr. 1830.'

Comments on map:

Dockyard mapped in some detail: 'civil' area is not, though it does carry a note 'NB A great many of the houses are of Wood.'

Scale:

1:1200

Map-maker:

Lieut White, R.E. [sv], Capt. George Gipps [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

103 x 113

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

naval dockyards

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals, misc.: Ordnance Well, Engineer Yard, Military Hospital.

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/1343.

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1861-2

1:528

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560