Essex-Harwich-1752 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18592

Map Date:

1752

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/1222

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 survey of the cliff and town of Harwich shewing the incroachments made by the sea, since ye year 1709.'

Comments on map:

'Crisp' execution, with detailed frontages onto street, but nothing behind. Notes on foreshore of where 'rubble' was taken for Landguard Fort. The TNA [PRO] copies seem to be transcripts of 1778.

Scale:

1:1200

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

154.0 x 89.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, decorative: Direction pointer, pictorial heaps of ? earth.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

breakwaters, lighthouses, naval dockyards, misc: Dock with what look like pictorial piles of timber; Two Old Ships for Breakwaters, stairs, Crane.

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/1222 [1778: three copies], BOL Gough Maps 7 f.62 [1752].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Relief:

slopes shown

Miscellaneous physical features:

Top of cliff in 1709.

Walls, embankments, etc:

Remains of ditch.

Ordnance Survey's

1861

1:2500

1874

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560