Hampshire-Portsmouth-1770 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18576

Map Date:

1.5.1770

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/503

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:

'Plan of Portsmouth and the harbour 1760.'

Comments on map:

Building morphology is semi-detailed, similar to Desmartez [Exeter 18574], and content is very similar: evidently a revision rather than resurvey in 1760, redrawn in 1770.

Scale:

1:2400

Map-maker:

Andrew Durnford Engineer diln [dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

102.3 x 70.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, decorative: Pictorial Elements.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

naval dockyards: [Docks in detail, similar to Desmartez, with pictorial timber, anchors, &c, Gun Wharf, Basin, Dry Docks with stepping, mast house and pound, quays, Pump (but no pumphouse)].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls: Governors House and Green, Saluting Platform, Armouries, Victualling Cooperage, Royal Academy.

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

Hodson's no.61(j). TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/503.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Commons:

shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Ordnance Survey's

1861

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1880-5

1:500

1896

1:2500

1:10,560