Hampshire-Portsmouth-1783
CBTM:
21108
Map Date:
? 1783
Repository reference:
Hampshire RO 16M51/8
Historic county:
Hampshire
Town name:
Gosport, Portsmouth, Landport, Southsea, Titchfield
Map type:
Military
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SU635995
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SU 6203
Map title:
'General plan of the Island of Portsea and survey on the Gosport Side, together with the fortifications of Portsmouth, Gosport, and New Works for inclosing His Majesty's Dock Yard: with the soundings of Spit Head, Stokes Bay, Portsmouth, and Langstone Harbours.'
Comments on map:
Usual Board of Ordnance style for this sort of scale: it is a puzzle why this is not in the Public Record Office, like Exeter 18577. Long note on tides, and comprehensive hydrographic information: decidedly a 'coastal zone' map.
Scale:
1:14,400
Map-maker:
[Board of Ordnance [author].]
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
130 x 93
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
other: 'Nautical Explanation', and very comprehensive it is.
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards, misc: Hards.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only: That at Portsmouth is pictorial.
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, misc.: Bastions: some, e.g. that across the channel north of Hilsea, are certainly fictitious.
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
[Not traced in Hodson.] Hampshire RO 16M51/7-8.
Industry:
salt, food/drink: Apparent salt-pans; Weevil Brewery, north of Gosport.
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Waterbodies:
shown
Relief:
slopes shown
Walls, embankments, etc:
Hedges.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
heath/uncultivated, marsh/wetland, misc: Arable and pasture.
Stated measuerments:
soundings: Comprehensive soundings, also annotated transits on landmarks.
Ordnance Survey's
1856-62
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1872
1:500
1:10,560
1895
1:2500
1:10,560
1861
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1880-5
1:500
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
1859-66
1:2500
1:10,560
1895
1:2500
1:10,560
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