Hampshire-Portsmouth-1584
CBTM:
18515
Map Date:
? 1584
Repository reference:
BL Cotton MS. Aug.I.ii.117
Historic county:
Hampshire
Town name:
Portsmouth
Map type:
Military
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SZ635995
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SU 6203
Comments on map:
Recorded from Donald Hodson, Early Portsmouth Maps (Portsmouth Record Series, Portfolio I, 1978). Streets look complete: distribution of houses seems incomplete.
Scale:
1:1200
Map-maker:
? Richard Popinjay [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
65.0 x 63.5
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, roads, water, decorative, other: Proposed defences.
Road names:
important roads only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town walls
Known copies of map:
Hodson's no.32a. BL Cotton MS. Aug.I.ii.117 [original]; BOL (E)C17:70 Portsmouth 32 [maps], G14/C17:32 [text] [no.1 in Donald Hodson, Early Portsmouth Maps (Portsmouth Record Series, Portfolio I, 1978)].
Antiquities:
Monastic sites.
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners
Map material:
parchment
Ordnance Survey's
1861
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1880-5
1:500
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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