Devonshire-Devonport-1765
CBTM:
18244
Map Date:
1765
Repository reference:
Devon RO [open access]
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 Plan of Stoke Town, and Plymouth Dock.'
Comments on map:
Inset on Donn's 1:63,360 map of Devon, 1765, immediately below Plymouth plan, which points contrast in treatment of 'public buildings': ordinary buildings are stippled. Scale in poles.
Scale:
1:4752
Map-maker:
Benjamin Donn [author].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
37.8 x 29.6
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards: The Docks [with possible stairs, and surrounds to ? graving docks], a Pond for Mafts, Timber Ground, Mud Dock, Gun Wharf.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Defence and military:
barracks, volunteer parade grounds, misc.: Barracks has 'Squares' named; Ditch or Wall, Officers Gardens and Houfes.
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 24.e.25, BOL Gough Maps Devonshire 3, C.17.a.3, C17:25.a.1, CUL Atlas 2.76.1, CUL Atlas 3.76.2, Devon RO [open access], NLS EU.19.D, RGS Eng & Wales D.15West Country Studies Library PM B/EXE/1765/DON [originals]; West Devon RO 850/34, 1403/5,30, Ph. 371/3 [photo]; BOL G24/C.17.5, CUL Atlas 5.96.147 [1965: facsimile in W.L.D. Ravenhill, in Benjamin Donn, A map of the county of Devon, 1765 (Devon & Cornwall Record Society and University of Exeter, 1965)];
Relief:
prominent hills
Ordnance Survey's
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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