Hampshire-Portsmouth-1772 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22856

Map Date:

1772

Repository reference:

Portsmouth RO DC/PM 2/23

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.'

Comments on map:

Photocopy of uncertain provenance: Board of Ordnance drawing style.

Scale:

1:2400

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

67 x 49

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: In some detail.

Water transport infrastructure:

naval dockyards, wharfs: [Gun Wharf].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries, town gates, magazines/arsenals, town walls, misc.: Victualling Cooperage, Governors House.

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

[Not traced in Hodson.] Portsmouth City RO DC/PM 2/23 [photo].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete: Incomplete-looking.

Ordnance Survey's

1861

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1880-5

1:500

1896

1:2500

1:10,560