Hampshire-Portsmouth-1694 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23311

Map Date:

? 1694

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.14.36

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 Portsmouth.'

Comments on map:

Text of reference to buildings and scale ('pied anglois') in French: notes at bottom on cost and circumference of fortifications are in English. Style is that of Board of Ordnance.

Scale:

1:8448

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

54.5 x 41.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls: Bastions in detail.

Known copies of map:

Hodson's no.49, 50. BLML K.Top.14.35, K.Top.14.36.

Ordnance Survey's

1861

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1880-5

1:500

1896

1:2500

1:10,560