Devonshire-Plymouth-1724
CBTM:
19816
Map Date:
1724
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 183.o.5
Historic county:
Devonshire
Town name:
Devonport, Stonehouse, Plymouth
Map type:
Military
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SX480540
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SX 4555
Map title:
'A plan of the town, citadel and harbour of Plymouth, and also of St Nicholas Island, the dockyard, new gunn wharf and parts adjacent 1724.'
Comments on map:
Elizabeth Stuart's no.89. Usual Board of Ordnance style: Devonport is Hamouse Dock.
Scale:
1:4800
Map-maker:
[Board of Ordnance [author].]
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
154.5 x 72.0
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use, other: Agricultural land-use, hachures.
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Much more detailed in Devonport; Plymouth by usual block style.
Mills:
watermills, (symbol)
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards: [Dockyard, gun wharf: buildings in detail, but no descriptions].
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only: By crosses on buildings in plan.
Penal:
jails/reformatories: ['Old French Prison'].
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, misc.: [Citadel: buildings in detail, but no descriptions]; Mount Wise [pictorial].
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
Elizabeth Stuart's no.89: BLML Maps 183.o.5, BL K.Top XI.75 [original]; Plymouth Archives Ph.355/7-9 [photo].
Gardens:
shown
Relief:
prominent hills: Rather simplistic.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
misc: Agricultural land-use.
Tenement boundaries group:
incomplete: Shown in Devonport & Stonehouse only.
Ordnance Survey's
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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