Hampshire-Portsmouth-1731 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18571

Map Date:

1731

Repository reference:

MPH 1/343

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 and dock, Gosport, Blockhouse Fort, with the harbour and the castles, islands, sands, etc in and about the same. done Anno 1731.'

Scale:

1:7920

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

99.7 x 52.1

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, other: Fortifications.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

naval dockyards: [Dock, with mast, boat and timber 'pounds' [? ponds], Gun Wharf].

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals, town walls, misc.: Governors House, Governors Green, Storehouses.

Welfare and charitable:

pest houses

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

Hodson's no.43. TNA [PRO] MPH 1/343.

Industry:

food/drink, rope walk: Ropewalk in plan only.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

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