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Hampshire-Portsmouth-1716

CBTM:
18520
Map Date:
1716
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/67 (2)
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:
'A plan of Portsmouth with a design for securing the Dock, and naval stores, done by Talbot Edwards, his Majties. Second Engineer 1715/6'.
Comments on map:
To show projected fortification scheme. Very 'sharp' execution.
Scale:
1:2400
Map-maker:
Talbot Edwards [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
100.0 x 74.0
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, decorative, other: Multi-colour compass rose; lines of defences.
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
windmills, watermills, (pictorial)
Water transport infrastructure:
quays, naval dockyards: Buildings in plan: not described.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town walls
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals: 'Fallen down'.
Known copies of map:
Hodson's no.56(c). TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/67 (1), (2), (3) [original]; CUL Atlas.2.97.76 [1976: in Harry Margary, with introduction by Paul Laxton, Two hundred and fifty years of map-making in the county of Hampshire (1976)]; BOL (E)C17:70 Portsmouth 32 [maps], G14/C17:32 [text] [no.7 in Donald Hodson, Early Portsmouth Maps (Portsmouth Record Series, Portfolio I, 1978)].
Industry:
food/drink, rope walk
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Gardens:
shown: [Some outside built-up part only].
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Very well-executed ships in 'sea'.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland
Stated measuerments:
soundings
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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