Hampshire-Portsmouth-1691 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19848

Map Date:

? 1691

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 2620 (55)

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

Map title:

'Plan de la Ville de Portsmouth'.

Comments on map:

'Goubet fecit'. Streets and blocks and fortifications only. Scale: 300 toises = 7.51 cm. Dating from Donald Hodson.

Scale:

1:9000*

Map-maker:

Goubet [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

35.5 x 30.2

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, other: Fortifications multi-colour; unbuilt-up areas with coloured trees, etc.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls: [Bassein, Le Docq: very little detail, in contrast to the earthworks and walls].

Known copies of map:

Hodson's no.48(a). National Library of Ireland MS 2742, f.23 [original]; BLML Maps 2620(55) [photo, 1:1 by British Museum]; BLML K.Top.14.34 [original of related map]. A '17th century French map' in Portsmouth Library local studies [photocopy] seems to be a variant of this (or of Exeter 23311).

Gardens:

shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1861

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1880-5

1:500

1896

1:2500

1:10,560