Devonshire-Devonport-1810 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20589

Map Date:

25.10.1810

Repository reference:

Plymouth Archives 153/A(2)2

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 the town of Plymouth Dock part of the manor of Stoke Damerell, in the parish of Stoke Damerell, in the county of Devonshire, the property of Sr. John St. Aubyn, Bart.'.'

Comments on map:

Three copies at this pressmark: two are on paper watermarked J. Whatman 1808. No details outside 'civil' built-up area.

Scale:

1:1584

Map-maker:

T. Richards, Totnes, Devon [sv, dr, pb], John Cooke, London, late Engr. to the Admiralty [eng].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

63.0 x 70.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, bay windows: All buildings seem to be carefully mapped, including apparent bay windows, but none are described (not even the church of 1771).

Water transport infrastructure:

naval dockyards, river stairs, misc: Public landing places; no internal details of dockyard.

Defence and military:

barracks: As adjoining land only.

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

Plymouth Archives 153/A(2)2.

Landowners and occupiers:

main owner only: In title.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Oak-leafy.

Arms and heraldry:

livery companies: [Presumed thus].

Towers:

tower: [Pictorial].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1892-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560