Devonshire-Plymouth-1595 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19715

Map Date:

? 1595

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 186.h.1(35)

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Stonehouse, Plymouth

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX480540

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 4555

Comments on map:

'Rotograph' copy by Office of Works, 1938, from original at Hatfield House. Not strictly to scale: has birds-eye-view elements. The copy is at 73 per cent of original size, so scale and dimensions have been compensated. Notes on area that was Millpool before Sir Francis Drake's water scheme, area of Sutton Pool, and circuit of castle/fort walls.

Scale:

1:3168*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

90.0 x 68.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

other: Appears to be 'full colour' treatment.

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): Cannon on walls and towers.

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

Elizabeth Stuart's no.11. Hatfield Ho, Vol I, no 35 [original] [S.11]; BLML Maps 186.h.1(35) [photo: 1939]; BL C.114.f.1, Tab.b.52.2 [in E.M. Tenison, Elizabethan England, Vol 9, Glasgow: Tenison, 1950].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Relief:

'molehills'

Ordnance Survey's

1892-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560