Hampshire-Portsmouth-1552 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23505

Map Date:

? 1552

Repository reference:

BL Cotton Augustus I.ii.15

Historic county:

Hampshire

Town name:

Portsmouth

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU635995

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 6203

Comments on map:

Recorded from James A. Williamson, Maritime enterprise, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913, fp 394. Dating from Donald Hodson.

Scale:

1:2400

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

75.0 x 54.7

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, decorative

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls, (pictorial): With bastions.

Known copies of map:

BL Cotton MS Aug.I.ii.15 [original]; Portsmouth Library [photo]; BL 08806.o.6 [in J.A. Williamson, Maritime Enterprise (Oxford, 1913)]; BOL C17:70 Portsmouth (27), CUL maps.bb.63.97.1,1 [1970: Portsmouth Library].

Map material:

parchment

Ordnance Survey's

1861

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1880-5

1:500

1896

1:2500

1:10,560