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Hampshire-Portsmouth-1716

CBTM:
18566
Map Date:
1716
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/29
Historic county:
Hampshire
Town name:
Gosport, 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 Harbour and Spit-head with the soundings, shewing the places fortified and land purchased for better security of the Dock; laid down by Talbot Edwards Second Engineer of England 1716.'
Comments on map:
Scale measured as 8.4 ins to 1 mile, 1:7542.
Scale:
1:7500
Map-maker:
Talbot Edwards [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
100.8 x 52.0
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use, general highlighting of district, decorative: Decorative direction pointer with rose boss.
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
windmills
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards: Mast, timber and boat 'pounds' [= ponds], brick wall round dock, causeway to low water, basin, Gun Wharfe; dock with buildings in some detail, and ships and soundings in harbour, with number of moorings. Indication of area purchased for dock extension: 'Places Pyled in for the use of ye Ordnanfe Betwixt the prick't Lines G & H is the Land purchafed for fortifying the Dock.' (Pricked = pecked/dotted.)
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries, town gates, magazines/arsenals, town walls, misc.: Saluting Platform, Governors House and green, Guard Rooms, bastions (named).
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals: Noted as 'fall'n down'.
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Hodson's no.21(a), 21(b), 21(f). TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/29; MPH 1/140 [two similar copies, 1726 and 1734].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, food/drink, rope walk
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Gardens:
misc: A named garden only.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Symbolic elements:
Infants: hold title on 'sheet'.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland
Stated measuerments:
soundings: In harbour.
Ordnance Survey's
1856-62
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1872
1:500
1:10,560
1895
1:2500
1:10,560
1861
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1880-5
1:500
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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