Hampshire-Portsmouth-1800 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18572

Map Date:

? 1800

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MPH 1/303

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, Block House Fort, and the Gun Wharf.'

Comments on map:

Date is very arbitary: Donald Hodson notes that it could be as early as c.1760.

Scale:

1:2400

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

70.5 x 49.2

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, decorative, other: Direction pointer, fortifications.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

watermills

Water transport infrastructure:

naval dockyards: [Gun Wharf (with lengths of straight of surrounding fence), Quays; most of the dock is outside the mapped area].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, misc.: Named bastions, Armoury, Victualling Cooperage, Parade, Saluting Platform, Governors House and Green, Main Sluice.

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

Hodson's no. 63(c). TNA [PRO] MPH 1/303.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Commons:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1861

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1880-5

1:500

1896

1:2500

1:10,560