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Devonshire-Plymouth-1860

CBTM:
18262
Map Date:
? 1860
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 41.d.5, CUL Atlas.4.86.7, Plymouth Archives [folder in searchroom]
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:
'Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse.'
Comments on map:
In the town-plan section at end of R. Montgomery Martin, ed, The Illustrated Atlas and modern history of the World, The London Printing and Publishing Company: for further notes on dating, etc, see under the Exeter map [Exeter 18257].
Scale:
1:13,400
Map-maker:
J. Rapkin [dr, eng], H. Bibby [dr & engr illns], John Tallis, London & New York [pb].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
35.7 x 26.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries, town walls: Walls are ramparts around Devonport; batteries & forts; dockyard, Keyham dockyard and Citadel all shown in detail.
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 41.d.5, CUL Atlas 4.86.72 [atlas original]; BOL G1.C.16.6 [1992: in Ashley Baynton-Williams, Town and city maps of the British Isles 1800-1855, London: Studio Editions, 1992]; Plymouth Archives 850/37 [photo of Devonport/Stonehouse only]; Plymouth City Library; CUL Maps 18.g.51; Plymouth Archives folder [mostly 1976 reissue by the Whitehall Press]; RGS Eng & Wales S.576 [Whitehall Press].
Industry:
ship yards
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations: Includes Cornwall Rly.
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Three vignettes of local scenes around map.
Commons:
shown: [The Hoe, with distinctive ground effect].
Borders:
decorative
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Ferries:
ferry
Cemeteries:
shown
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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