Hampshire-Portsmouth-1705
CBTM:
22669
Map Date:
? 1705
Repository reference:
BOL Gough Maps Hampshire 10
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
Map title:
'The ichnography of Portsmouth'.
Comments on map:
A military style rather than the evolving Board of Ordnance style. Dated 1716 in Bodleian cards: Donald Hodson dates it c.1705. Scale is about 1 inch to 70 yards, 1:2520.
Scale:
1:2520
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
67.8 x 48.5
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use, decorative: Brownish water.
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Frontages only, except for fortifications.
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Defence and military:
town gates, volunteer parade grounds, town walls: [Gates named].
Known copies of map:
Hodson's no.55. BOL Gough Maps Hampshire 10.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Colourful and intricate compass; on right a barge with the Union flag approaches a ship with its guns firing.
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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