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Devonshire-Stonehouse-1683

CBTM:
18270
Map Date:
28.2.1683
Repository reference:
Devon RO 1120Z/FZ47
Historic county:
Devonshire
Town name:
Stonehouse
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SX465540
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SX 4555
Map title:
'The Mannour of Stonehouse Surveyed & Plotted March 1682-3 By Jerom Roch jr'.
Comments on map:
Map has faded, so that first column of reference and some of the acreages are illegible. Seems to have been used for a comprehensive replanning, with straight streets, a square and a circus; no church apparent. Scale originally recorded as 4.125 inches to 10 chains, which is 1:1920 or 1 inch to 160 feet. Elizabeth Stuart notes in Lost Landscapes (p.93): 'The only map within this catalogue which relates purely to Stonehouse.'
Scale:
1:1920
Map-maker:
Jerom Roch, jr [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
65.9 x 85.5
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, decorative, other, uncertain: Proposed streets in red; gardens in blotchy green; multi-colour scale and direction pointer, latter with gold leaf; multi-colour ships; green bands for field boundaries; one group of fields coloured carmine: unclear why; pictorial houses, multi-coloured; bays named in red; brown rock ornament.
Road names:
inside built-up area only
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
(unspecified type): Old Mills [? tide mills: on Millbay].
Known copies of map:
Devon RO 1120Z/F247 [original]; Plymouth Archives Ph.373, Ph 436/1 [photos].
Gardens:
shown
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Ships in Stonehouse Pool and river: mostly faded, but top one flies several flags of England, &c.
Map material:
parchment
Ordnance Survey's
1855
1:2500
1:10,560
1892-3
1:2500
1:10,560
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