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Devonshire-Plymouth-1827

CBTM:
20599
Map Date:
1.10.1827
Repository reference:
Plymouth Central Library, Local Studies
Historic county:
Devonshire
Town name:
Torpoint, 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:
'Cooke's stranger's guide, or pocket plan of the three towns of Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse.'
Comments on map:
Printed on pale green paper. Price 1s.6d.
Scale:
1:13,860
Map-maker:
John Cooke, 82 Union St, Stonehouse [? author].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
37.8 x 26.1
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
watermills
Water transport infrastructure:
navigation aids, naval dockyards: [Dockyard with buildings, undescribed].
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
incomplete Anglican/established only, (pictorial): Not St Aubyn.
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals, town walls, misc.: Admirals and Government houses.
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
BL 10352.a.28, 10360.a.7, BOL Johnson f.1468 [in Tourists companion to Devonport, Plymouth...], Plymouth Central Library, Local Studies.
Industry:
engineering, oil/soap etc, rope walk, textiles
Railways:
industrial tramways/waggonways: [Dartmoor Rail Road].
Relief:
prominent hills, cliffs
Borders:
decorative
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Reference system:
squaring: 0.25-mile.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal, principal landowner., uncertain: [Plymouth, St Aubyn]; a third uncertain.
Ferries:
ferry
Ordnance Survey's
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1857-9
1:2500
1:10,560
1884
1:2500
1:10,560
1892-3
1:2500
1:10,560
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