Devonshire-Plymouth-1820
CBTM:
18260
Map Date:
1820
Repository reference:
Cambridge University Library Maps.c.58.83.1, University of Exeter Geography Department
Historic county:
Devonshire
Town name:
Devonport, Stonehouse, Plymouth
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SX480540
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SX 4555
Map title:
'Plan of the Towns & Harbour of Plymouth, Stonehouse, Dock, Morice Town, Stoke, and the Environs, in the County of Devon.'
Comments on map:
Scale measured as 2.83 ins to 0.5 mile (1:11,194); West Country Local Studies list says 71 mm to 4 furlongs (1:11,315), i.e. 2.8 inches, so 1:11:250 adopted as compromise.
Scale:
1:11,250
Map-maker:
S. Elliott, Landsurveyor &c, Orchard Place, Plymouth [sv, dr, pb], John Cooke, Stonehouse, Plymouth [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
51.0 x 37.0.
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
watermills
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards: Dock Yard not in shown great detail; Gun Wharf.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: The three Anglican parishes churches are shown pictorially.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals, town walls, misc.: Walls are ramparts around Devonport and Drake's Island; Citadel [in some detail], tower at Mount Batten [pictorial].
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Known copies of map:
Plymouth City Library; West Country Studies Library OM B/PLY/1830/COO [says is 44.2 x 25.3 cm][1820]; CUL Maps c.58.83.1 [1830].
Industry:
rope walk
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Magnetic data:
diagram: Direction pointer has 'wings' and plumes, and also an arrow which presumably indicates magnetic north.
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Relief:
prominent hills
Commons:
shown
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Ferries:
ferry
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland
Ordnance Survey's
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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