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Hampshire-Portsmouth-1716

CBTM:
18519
Map Date:
1716
Repository reference:
Bodleian, Gough maps Hampshire 12
Historic county:
Hampshire
Town name:
Gosport, Portsmouth, Landport, Southsea
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, and parts adjacent, finished in the year 1716.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from Harry Margary, with introduction by Paul Laxton, Two hundred and fifty years of map-making in the county of Hampshire (1976); also partly in Hodson (1978). Little urban detail. Scale recorded as 3.68 inches to 1 miles, 1:17,217.
Scale:
1:17,200
Map-maker:
? Talbot Edwards [sv], Clement Lempriere [dr].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
71.2 x 51.2
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, land-use
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
watermills
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town walls
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
Hodson's no.14.a. BLML K.Top.14.11.1, BLML K.Top.14.11.2, BLML K.Top.14.12, BLML K.Top.14.13, BOL Gough maps Hampshire 12; Portsmouth Library [neg. photo]; Portsmouth RO [photo]; BOL C17:70 Portsmouth (27), CUL maps.bb.63.97.1,3 [1970: Portsmouth Library]; CUL Atlas.2.97.76 [1976: 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.6 in Donald Hodson, Early Portsmouth Maps (Portsmouth Record Series, Portfolio I, 1978) [from BOL Gough Maps Hampshire 12]].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, food/drink
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Ordnance Survey's
1856-62
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1872
1:500
1:10,560
1895
1:2500
1:10,560
1858-63
1:2500
1:10,560
1872
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
1861
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1880-5
1:500
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
1859-62
1:2500
1:10,560
1872
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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