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Devonshire-Plymouth-1756

CBTM:
18289
Map Date:
31.1.1756
Repository reference:
Devon RO L1258/Maps/1/Roads bridges & canals/3
Historic county:
Devonshire
Town name:
Devonport, Stonehouse, Plymouth
Map type:
Highways
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SX480540
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SX 4555
Map title:
'A Plan of the Great and Cross Roads about Plymouth and Dock taken in February 1756'.
Comments on map:
Elizabeth Stuart's no.113. Shows roads intended to be turnpiked; a rather rough and sketchy map, only admitted on grounds of scale: all three towns and Saltash are very generalised.
Scale:
1:19,008
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
63.6 x 45.5
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
R
Colouring:
Buildings, roads, water: Buildings and water grey; red pecks along side of proposed turnpikes.
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Isolated buildings and smaller settlements, e.g. Stonehouse, shown by pictorial symbols.
Turnpikes:
shown: These are proposed rather than authorised turnpikes, shown by red pecks: see legends.
Mills:
windmills, watermills: [Water are 'Old Mills' at Millbay].
Penal:
jails/reformatories: [French Prison].
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Devon RO L1258/Maps/1/ Roads bridges & canals/3 [L.1258 cat, Vol 2, p.137]. [S.113]
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Ships and rowing boats in Plymouth Sound and Hamm Ooze.
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
pounds/pinfolds: [Old pound].
Ordnance Survey's
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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