Hampshire-Portsmouth-1668
CBTM:
18517
Map Date:
1668
Repository reference:
BL Add MS 16371.c
Historic county:
Hampshire
Town name:
Gosport, Portsmouth
Map type:
Military
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SZ635995
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SU 6203
Map title:
'Portsmouth, the Docke Gosport town, and Gosport point, made by Sr Ber: de Gomme 1668'.
Comments on map:
Recorded from Donald Hodson, Early Portsmouth Maps (Portsmouth Record Series, Portfolio I, 1978), revised from TNA [PRO] MR 1/1288, 7:xi:00 (early 19th century copy). Monastic building: otherwise uninformative.
Scale:
1:3168
Map-maker:
Sir Bernard De Gomme [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
113.0 x 90.0
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, decorative, other: Scale dividers, direction pointer, fortifications.
Road names:
generally: Portsmouth only.
Buildings:
some or all buildings omitted.: A few scattered pictorial buildings.
Mills:
windmills, watermills
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town walls
Known copies of map:
Hodson's no.40. BL Add MSS 16371c; Portsmouth Library [photo]; TNA [PRO] MR 1/1288 [early C19 copy]; BL 10360.k.22 [in A.N.Y. Howell, Notes on the topgy of P (1913)]; BOL C17:70 Portsmouth (27), CUL maps.bb.63.97.1,2 [1970: Portsmouth Library]; BOL (E)C17:70 Portsmouth 32 [maps], G14/C17:32 [text] [no.4 in Donald Hodson, Early Portsmouth Maps (Portsmouth Record Series, Portfolio I, 1978)].
Industry:
rope walk
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Antiquities:
Monastic building.
Ordnance Survey's
1856-62
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1872
1:500
1:10,560
1895
1:2500
1:10,560
1861
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1880-5
1:500
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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