Devonshire-Plymouth-1779
CBTM:
19831
Map Date:
10.6.1779
Repository reference:
BLML Maps c.11.b.7
Historic county:
Devonshire
Town name:
Devonport, Stonehouse, Plymouth
Map type:
Hydrographic
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SX480540
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SX 4555
Map title:
'Plymouth Sound, Hamoaze and Catwater surveyed in 1770.'
Comments on map:
Chart: not very informative, and only included because it falls within the scale-range.
Scale:
1:18,000
Map-maker:
Robert Sayer & John Bennett, chart and mapsellers, 53 Fleet St, London [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
51.7 x 70.3
Number of parts:
1
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards, misc: [Dock yard named, but left blank]; Royal Hospital, i.e. the naval one of 1759, &c.
Places of Worship:
landmarks only, (pictorial): Stoke, Maker, &c.
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Known copies of map:
Elizabeth Stuart's nos.139-41,146-149, 198: manuscript and printed versions. Manuscript version: BL MT 11.h.1(9) [S.140]; NMM LAD/11 f.40 [S.139]. Printed version: BL Maps c.11.b.7 [S.141]; Plymouth Central Library; (different state) NMM 419/111 PB D8407 [S.146]; Naval Historical Library Ve 34 [S.147] [1786: pb Laurie & Whittle]; BL Maps 151.f.1(3) [S.148] (pb Laurie & Whittle 1797]; Plymouth Archives Ph. 416/7 [W. Heather: S.198] [1799]; BL Maps C.10.d.7 [S.149] [1798: pb Laurie & Whittle]; Plymouth Central Library; Plymouth City Museum.
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Stated measuerments:
soundings
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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