Devonshire-Devonport-1757 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20591

Map Date:

1757

Repository reference:

Plymouth Archives 153/A(2)1

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Devonport

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX454547

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 4555

Map title:

'A plan of Dock Town and adjacencies; now called Devonport: arranged partly from plans taken in the years 1706, 1715, 1731, 1757 and partly from a terrier of the glebe lands made in the year 1680 by J.L. Paulby Survr.'

Comments on map:

'This Fac Simile was made in May 1891 at the Manor Office Deveonport. W.E. Curry.' Of rather dubious provenance. Urban development is about right for mid-18th century.

Scale:

1:3000

Map-maker:

J.L. Paulby Survr. [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

84.2 x 58.2

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

roads, water, estate, other: Cliffs.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

naval dockyards: [No details at all].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Known copies of map:

Plymouth Archives 153/A(2)1.

Relief:

cliffs

Estate boundary ownership:

glebe

Ordnance Survey's

1892-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560