Hampshire-Gosport-1678 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18565

Map Date:

1678

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MPH 1/215

Historic county:

Hampshire

Town name:

Gosport

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SZ621998

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 6203

Comments on map:

Apparently to show projected defences: these cut across some existing boundaries. Of questionable 'urban' interest.

Scale:

1:1200

Map-maker:

Bernard De Gomme [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

78.0 x 72.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, decorative: Scale.

Road names:

important roads only

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., 'ordinary' buildings pictorial: Scattered pictorial buildings: unclear why.

Defence and military:

misc.: Redoubt.

Known copies of map:

Hodson's no.71. TNA [PRO] MPH 1/215.

Industry:

rope walk

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Commons:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1856-62

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1872

1:500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560