Devonshire-Plymouth-1765 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18243

Map Date:

1765

Repository reference:

Devon RO [open access]

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Plymouth

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX480540

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 4555

Map title:

'A Plan of the Town and Citadel of Plymouth'.

Comments on map:

Inset on Donn's 1:63,360 map of Devon. Scale graduated in poles.

Scale:

1:4752

Map-maker:

Benjamin Donn [author].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

37.9 x 29.1

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: 'Ordinary' buildings have stipple infill.

Sanitary and utility information:

conduits

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, misc.: [Citadel, shown in some detail, but unnamed, Mount Batten [pictorial]], Store Houses.

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 24.e.25 [[Elizabeth Stuart in Lost landscapes says BLML C.11.c.7], BOL Gough Maps Devonshire 3, C.17.a.3, C17:25.a.1, CUL Atlas 2.76.1, CUL Atlas 3.76.2, Devon RO [open access], NLS EU.19.D, RGS Eng & Wales D.15, West Country Studies Library PM B/EXE/1765/DON [originals]; BOL G24/C.17.5, CUL Atlas 5.96.147 [1965: facsimile in W.L.D. Ravenhill, in Benjamin Donn, A map of the county of Devon, 1765 (Devon & Cornwall Record Society and University of Exeter, 1965)]; in R.N.Worth, History of Plymouth (Plymouth, Brendon, 1890; orig pub 1872)]; BL 010360.bb.65, CUL R.C. 10.1.44 [1931: extract in Charles W. Bracken, A history of Plymouth and her neighbours, Plymouth: Underhill, 1931, f.p.106].

Antiquities:

Friery.

Borders:

decorative

Ordnance Survey's

1892-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560