Hampshire-Portsmouth-1725 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23309

Map Date:

1725

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.14.26

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 the town and harbour & places adjacent of Portsmouth 1725.'

Comments on map:

Usual Board of Ordnance style, with not much 'civil' detail.

Scale:

1:7200

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

98.5 x 52.8

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, land-use

Buildings:

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

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

naval dockyards, wharfs

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries, town gates, magazines/arsenals, town walls, misc.: Saluting Platform: bastions, etc, in detail.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

[Hodson's no.21 (c), 21 (e).] BLML K.Top.14.26, K.Top.14.27.

Industry:

food/drink, rope walk

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial shipping in harbour.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Stated measuerments:

soundings: At low water.

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