Hampshire-Portsmouth-1743
CBTM:
18574
Map Date:
1743
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/291
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 Portsmouth and the harbour. Done by I.P. Desmartez Anno 1743.'
Scale:
1:2400
Map-maker:
J.P. Desmartez [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
114.3 x 69.3
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, land-use, decorative: Pictorial elements in dock.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
windmills, watermills
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards: [Quays, Mast House, mast, boat and timber pounds (? ponds), basins; dock includes Gun Wharf, pictorial anchors and crane representing anchor wharf, piles of timber in the dock].
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, misc.: Armouries, Saluting Platforms, Victualling Cooperage, Commissioners House, Governors House and Green, Pump, Pumphouse, Main Sluice, Fountain Pound; pictorial fence and entrance gate.
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Known copies of map:
Hodson's no.61 (a), (b), (e-i). BLML K.Top.14.29.2.Tab, 14.41.2.Tab, TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/291 [6 copies]; Portsmouth Library [1750: photos from K.Top.14.29.2.Tab, 14.41.2.Tab]; Portsmouth RO [1750: photo: provenance?]; BOL C17:70 Portsmouth (27), CUL maps.bb.63.97.1,4 [1750/1970: Portsmouth Library].
Industry:
rope walk
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Gardens:
shown
Commons:
shown
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland
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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