Hampshire-Gosport-1829 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18570

Map Date:

25.7.1829

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/1432

Historic county:

Hampshire

Town name:

Gosport

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU621998

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 6203

Map title:

'General plan of Gosport.'

Comments on map:

Of little urban interest: no more frontage-detail than the Bruce map of 1758 [Exeter 18569].

Scale:

1:2400

Map-maker:

J. Lynn Lieut. R.E. [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

123.0 x 68.0 [main sheet; 146 x 93, irregular, with extensions on tracing paper].

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, other: Ordnance land.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/1432.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

misc: Convicts Garden; gardens in Priddy's Hard fort.

Ordnance Survey's

1856-62

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1872

1:500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560