Essex-Harwich-1725 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20626

Map Date:

1725

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.39.61

Historic county:

Essex

Town name:

Harwich

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TM260325

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TM 2833

Map title:

'A plan of Landguard Fort with the town and harbour of Harwich 1725.'

Comments on map:

Inset of fort, 1:480: main record applies to town, which is shown in usual Board of Ordnance style, as blocks. Map may be much later transcript.

Scale:

1:10,560

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

68.8 x 46.8

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

lighthouses, naval dockyards: [No detail in dockyard].

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML K.Top.39.61.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Relief:

slopes shown

Stated measuerments:

soundings: Presumably in feet.

Ordnance Survey's

1861

1:2500

1874

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560