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Devonshire-Devonport-1756

CBTM:
19806
Map Date:
? 1756
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.11.85
Historic county:
Devonshire
Town name:
Devonport
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SX454547
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SX 4555
Map title:
'A geometrical plan and west prospect of Stoke Town in the County of Devon, with His Majesty's Dockyard and Ordnance Wharfe'.
Comments on map:
Elizabeth Stuart's no.111. Apparently lacks nothing in fine detail, though streets and tenement boundaries run suspiciously straight.
Scale:
1:1440
Map-maker:
Bign [?] Milton [author].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
61.0 x 74.0
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown, steps to buildings: Steps to officers houses, etc.
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards: [Dockyard and Ordnance Wharf shown in detail, including dock wall with pictorial gateway, Mast Pond, and New Timber Ground with extensive pictorial 'trunks' in groups].
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial): [This is the Chapel [pictorial] in the dock yard].
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
Elizabeth Stuart's no.110: BLML K.Top.XI.85; BLML 2123 (53) [S.111: later state, also copy at BOL Gough Maps Devonshire 8.]; CUL Maps.bb.17.G.130, Plymouth Archives Ph 371/2; BOL Gough Maps Devonshire 7.
Gardens:
shown
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners: [Poor's Ground].
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Pikes and flags sprout from the Ordnance and Admiralty arms. Main title has at top sun and moon, clock with hands at 6 o'clock, columns above and alongside title, chequerwork 'floor' below, and Masonic-looking drawing instruments below; the whole has a decidely 'Masonic' feel. At the foot of the columns above the clock-face are the single letters S, W, B; at the foot of the left hand column alongside the title are EN APXH; at the foot of the right hand one are HN O AOPO[greek E].G framed by inverted triangles below title.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
At top of map is the 'West Prospect' referred to in the title; below, held aloft by two putti, is 'The Parish Church', i.e. Stoke Dameral, which is well off the map.
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Symbolic elements:
Pikes, flags, sun and moon, clock, columns, chequerwork 'floor', Masonic-looking drawing instruments: around titrle, etc.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Extensive shipping in (unnamed) river; several vessels with incomplete masts and no sails, though flags fly from their sterns.
Arms and heraldry:
dedicee of map, misc: Above reference to Ordnance Wharf are the Board of Ordnance arms; above the reference to the dock yard are the Admiralty 'fouled anchor' arms.
Dedicee of map:
Sir John St Aubyn, Bart.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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