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Devonshire-Plymouth-1768

CBTM:
20588
Map Date:
1768
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] MF 1/54
Historic county:
Devonshire
Town name:
Devonport, Stonehouse, Plymouth
Map type:
Military
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
SX480540
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SX 4555
Map title:
'Plan de la ville, des Ports, de la Citadelle et des chantiers de Plymouth. Figure de memoire les 24, et 25, Septembre 1768.'
Comments on map:
Planche 7, accompanying report of 24-25 September 1768. The set also includes the Tower of London and Windsor Castle, and a general monolingual map of England and Wales published by John Rocque, April 1760, c.1:1,350,000. Style is broadly similar to Board of Ordnance, but hills are brown-sepias shading. Despite title, cover of Plymouth town is fragmentary. Said by Elizabeth Stuart [no. 135] to be made for invasion purposes: notes on land use, water depths, etc.
Scale:
1:12,000*
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
54.8 x 41.7
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards, misc: [No internal details of dockyard worth the mention]; moorings indicated in estuary; notes of courses for warships and frigates.
Places of Worship:
landmarks only: 'Eglise de Stoke', Maker.
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals, town walls, misc.: [Numerous batteries and bastions], Naval hospital.
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Elizabeth Stuart's no.135. TNA [PRO] MR 54/1 [original]; Plymouth Archives 467/12 [photo].
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Landowners and occupiers:
notable residents
Relief:
slopes shown
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
Piramide [pictorial]: on shore at Maker.
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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