Hampshire-Portsmouth-1743 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18521

Map Date:

1743

Repository reference:

BL Maps K.Top. XIV.28

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 1743.'

Scale:

1:2400

Map-maker:

John Peter Desmartez [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

114.0 x 69.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use

Road names:

fragmentary

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

naval dockyards: [Various quays, Gun Wharf, mast and timber ponds, 'Commis. House', Pump, Pump House, Royal Academy: all part of Dockyard].

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Known copies of map:

Hodson's no.61(c). BLML Maps K.Top. XIV.28 [original]; BOL (E)C17:70 Portsmouth 32 [maps], G14/C17:32 [text] [no.8 in Donald Hodson, Early Portsmouth Maps (Portsmouth Record Series, Portfolio I, 1978)].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Commons:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1861

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1880-5

1:500

1896

1:2500

1:10,560