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Devonshire-Plymouth-1777

CBTM:
18300
Map Date:
? 1777
Repository reference:
Devon & Exeter Institution (map chest)
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 Bowen's 'Accurate Map' of Devon: publication date omitted, but pencil note on Devon & Exeter Institution copy says is from the Large English Atlas, '1777 (1764)'. Reference has 17 buildings, etc, in the town, including the two Anglican churches, conduits and town gates, and 28 references to buildings in the citadel. Historical note on Plymouth at bottom of map.
Scale:
1:6336
Map-maker:
Eman. Bowen [author], Carrington Bowles, St Pauls Church Yard, John Bowles, Cornhill, and Robert Sayer, Fleetstreet [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
18.8 x 21.5
Number of parts:
1
Building names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Sanitary and utility information:
conduits
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Defence and military:
town gates, misc.: Mount Batten shown by pictorial tower on 'molehill'; moat/ditch of citadel stippled.
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 7.e.16, BL Maps C.10 d.18, BOL (E) C17:25 (8), CUL Maps.c.58.75.1, Atlas 1.75.1 [1755]; BLML Maps 2119 (4), Devon & Exeter Institution (map chest) [1777]; BLML Maps 2119 (20) [1795].
Ordnance Survey's
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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