Devonshire-Devonport-1755 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19807

Map Date:

? 1755

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.11.86

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Devonport, Stonehouse

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX454547

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 4555

Map title:

'Plan of the lines round Plymouth Dock shewing in yellow where the proposed barracks A: are plac'd without ye bastions'.

Comments on map:

Elizabeth Stuart's no. 109. Much better urban building morphography than usual from Board of Ordnance at this time. The settlement is called 'Hamouse Dock'.

Scale:

1:4800

Map-maker:

D. Slack [dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

53.8 x 36.2

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, other: Agricultural land use, forehore and hachures; defence lines in deep green and golden yellow.

Building names:

fragmentary

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Water transport infrastructure:

naval dockyards: [Dockyard with buildings, but no descriptions; Gun Wharf, Old Gun Wharf].

Places of Worship:

landmarks only: [Stoke church].

Defence and military:

town walls, misc.: Bastions.

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Known copies of map:

Elizabeth Stuart's no.109: BL K.Top 11.86.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

slopes shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Other land-uses & land-cover:

misc: Careful attention to agricultural land-use.

Ordnance Survey's

1892-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560