Hampshire-Gosport-1757 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18525

Map Date:

1757

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/293 (5)

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

Map title:

'Plan of Gosport with a new intrenchment for better securing His Majesty's Dock at Portsmouth. 1757.'

Scale:

1:2400

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

107.0 x 51.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

important roads only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

Hodson's no.87(g). TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/293(1)-(8) [originals: 8 copies]; BOL (E)C17:70 Portsmouth 32 [maps], G14/C17:32 [text] [no.14 in Donald Hodson, Early Portsmouth Maps (Portsmouth Record Series, Portfolio I, 1978)].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

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