Hampshire-Portsmouth-1750
CBTM:
23310
Map Date:
1750
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.14.30
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 Gosport and parts adjacent, shewing in yellow the intended fortifications not yet compleated.'
Comments on map:
Usual Board of Ordnance style.
Scale:
1:7200
Map-maker:
I.P. Desmartez [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
73.2 x 52.2
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, land-use, other: Incomplete fortifications.
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town walls, (pictorial), misc.: Bastions, etc, shown in detail; the Haslar hospital, still very incomplete.
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Hodson's no. 28 (a), 28 (b). BLML K.Top 14.30 [1750]; BLML K.Top 14.31 [1751].
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Gardens:
shown
Waterbodies:
shown
Commons:
shown
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Some pictorial shipping in harbour.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
heath/uncultivated, marsh/wetland
Stated measuerments:
soundings
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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