Hampshire-Gosport-1774
CBTM:
18524
Map Date:
1774
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.XIV.10(2)
Historic county:
Hampshire
Town name:
Gosport, Titchfield
Map type:
Military
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SZ621998
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SU 6203
Map title:
'Survey of the Gosport side, from Portsmouth Harbour to Titchfield Haven made by order of His Majesty by Matthew Pitts Sub Engineer under the direction of John Archer Engr 1774.'
Comments on map:
Titchfield is mapped to a much greater resolution of detail than is Gosport.
Scale:
1:7200
Map-maker:
Matthew Pitts, sub engineer [author], John Archer [dir].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
150.0 x 89.0
Number of parts:
1
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
watermills
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town walls
Known copies of map:
Hodson's no.92. BLML K.Top.XIV.10(2) [original]; BOL (E)C17:70 Portsmouth 32 [maps], G14/C17:32 [text] [no.12 in Donald Hodson, Early Portsmouth Maps (Portsmouth Record Series, Portfolio I, 1978)].
Ordnance Survey's
1856-62
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1872
1:500
1:10,560
1895
1:2500
1:10,560
1859-66
1:2500
1:10,560
1895
1:2500
1:10,560
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