Hampshire-Portsmouth-1773
CBTM:
18523
Map Date:
1773
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.XIV.16
Historic county:
Hampshire
Town name:
Gosport, Portsmouth, Landport, Southsea
Map type:
Military
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SZ635995
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SU 6203
Map title:
'Plan of the Island of Portsea shewing the present fortifications of Portsmouth, Gosport, lines and out-forts... with the improvements proposed by Major Archer... 1773.'
Comments on map:
As with others of these Portsmouth maps, 'urban' detail is very limited.
Scale:
1:7200
Map-maker:
Ordnance Office [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
123.5 x 103.0
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards: Dockyard buildings shown in some detail, but not described.
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, misc.: Bastions, etc: some of this may be proposed rather than actual; Haslar Hospital.
Known copies of map:
Hodson's no.18. BLML K.Top.14.16 [original]; Portsmouth RO DC/PM 2/24/1-2 [photocopy]; BOL (E)C17:70 Portsmouth 32 [maps], G14/C17:32 [text] [no.11 in Donald Hodson, Early Portsmouth Maps (Portsmouth Record Series, Portfolio I, 1978)].
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Commons:
shown
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Stated measuerments:
soundings: In channel between Portsmouth and Gosport.
Ordnance Survey's
1856-62
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1872
1:500
1:10,560
1895
1:2500
1:10,560
1858-63
1:2500
1:10,560
1872
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
1861
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1880-5
1:500
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
1859-62
1:2500
1:10,560
1872
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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