Devonshire-Plymouth-1725 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18512

Map Date:

1725

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/902

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, together with that of St Nicholas's Island, the New Gunn Wharf, the Dock Yard, and places adjacent, 1725.'

Scale:

1:4800

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

133.0 x 70.5

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

watermills

Water transport infrastructure:

naval dockyards: [Dock Yard, Gunn Wharf: in some detail].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Penal:

jails/reformatories: [French Prison].

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries: [Citadel].

Known copies of map:

Elizabeth Stuart's number 90: TNA [PRO] MR 1/902 (2) [original], Plymouth Archives 467/8 [copy].

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete: Showwn at 'Dock Town' [Devonport] only.

Ordnance Survey's

1892-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1892-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560