Dorset-Lyme Regis-1768
CBTM:
23499
Map Date:
1768
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] MF 1/54
Historic county:
Dorset
Town name:
Lyme Regis
Map type:
Military
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SY342921
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SY 2993
Map title:
'Plan de Lyme ....'
Comments on map:
Planche 9, accompanying report of 28 September 1768. The set also includes the Tower of London and Windsor Castle, and a general monolingual map of England and Wales published by John Rocque, April 1760, c.1:1,350,000. Style is broadly similar to Board of Ordnance, but hills are brown-sepia shading.
Scale:
1:10,000*
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
23.0 x 28.0
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Known copies of map:
TNA [PRO] MF 1/54.
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Relief:
slopes shown
Ordnance Survey's
1887
1:2500
1:10,560
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