Hampshire-Portsmouth-1724
CBTM:
22670
Map Date:
? 1724
Repository reference:
BOL Gough Maps Hampshire 11
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 the town and fortifications of Portsmouth'.
Comments on map:
Dated 1716 in Bodleian Cards; Donald Hodson offers c.1724. Note top left, below title, 'Boundaries of the King's Land explained;', but not completed. Neatly penned.
Scale:
1:2400
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
67.2 x 49.5
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, land-use, decorative
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Frontages only.
Mills:
windmills, watermills, (pictorial): [Water mill in plan: from situation is presumably a tide-mill].
Water transport infrastructure:
quays, naval dockyards: [Including Gun Wharfe, Grand Storehouse].
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries, town gates, magazines/arsenals, volunteer parade grounds, town walls, misc.: Saluteing Platform, Victualing Cooperidge, Governours House.
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
Hodson's no.58 (A). BOL Gough Maps Hampshire 11.
Industry:
lime/cement, rope walk: [Rope Walk pictorial, with goalpost-like things].
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative: Two putti hold drape or cloth.
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Symbolic elements:
Putti: hold title.
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial shipping: carefully penned.
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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