Hampshire-Portsmouth-1714 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22668

Map Date:

? 1714

Repository reference:

BOL Gough Maps Hampshire 9

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:

'A plan of Portsmouth'.

Comments on map:

Non-military areas shown inn much more detail than usual for this sort of map. Dated 1714 in Bodleian catalogue.

Scale:

1:2400

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

69.3 x 50.2

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

quays, naval dockyards: Including Victualling Key, Gun Wharfe, Landing Place, Hard Way.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries, town gates, magazines/arsenals, town walls, misc.: Including named bastions; Saluteing Platform, Govers House, Victualling Cooperage.

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Hodson's no.63(b). BOL Gough Maps Hampshire 9 [original]; Portsmouth Library [photo].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Commons:

shown

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Flagged areas (?): finely penned.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1861

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1880-5

1:500

1896

1:2500

1:10,560