Hampshire-Portsmouth-1725 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23312

Map Date:

1725

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.14.37

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 the town and fortifications of Portsmouth. 1725.'

Comments on map:

Usual Board of Ordnance style. Note on boundaries of Crown lands below title. 'Not to be opened' penciled on back.

Scale:

1:2400

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

64.7 x 48.2

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, land-use

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Usual Ordnance 'blocks'.

Mills:

windmills, watermills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

quays, naval dockyards

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, magazines/arsenals, town walls: Bastions in usual detail.

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

Hodson's no. 58(b). BLML K.Top. 14.37.

Industry:

lime/cement

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: On drape held by putti.

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Symbolic elements:

Putti: support title.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial shipping in harbour.

Ordnance Survey's

1861

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1880-5

1:500

1896

1:2500

1:10,560