Devonshire-Plymouth-1756
CBTM:
19804
Map Date:
1756
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.11.77, 11.78.1
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:
'Plan of the town, citadel, dock and country round Plymouth'.
Comments on map:
Elizabeth Stuart's nos 114, 115. Very much defence mapping: only the street-plan in the built-up areas. Rural land-use seems to be carefully indicated.
Scale:
1:9600
Map-maker:
John Manson, Abrm D'aubant [dr].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
62.0 x 50.8
Number of parts:
2
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use, other: Hachures under arable/grass colouring.
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
windmills, watermills
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards: [Dockyard with buildings; Gun Wharf, Victualling Office; pictorial piles of timber on timber wharf].
Places of Worship:
landmarks only: Stoke and Maker only, though at Plymouth St Andrew and Charles Church can be picked out by conventional shape.
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town walls: [Citadel and dockyard with buildings; walls are Devonport defences; below title references list numbers of guns in place at Dock and Citadel, and note that St Nicholas Island will mount 100 guns].
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Elizabeth Stuart's nos. 114 and 115: BL K.Top XI.77, Plymouth Archives Ph.355/11 [S.114]; BL K.Top XI.78.1, Plymouth Archives Ph.355/12-13 [S.115].
Industry:
rope walk
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Gardens:
shown
Waterbodies:
shown
Relief:
slopes shown: Quite extensive, though not very sophisticated; too much of a 'step' effect.
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Ferries:
ferry: ['Passage' several times, i.e. ferry].
Ordnance Survey's
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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