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Hampshire-Portsmouth-1835

CBTM:
19111
Map Date:
1.2.1835
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] T72/14
Historic county:
Hampshire
Town name:
Portsmouth, Landport, Southsea
Map type:
boundaries
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SZ635995
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SU 6203
Map title:
'The Island of Portsea including the towns of Portsmouth and Portsea with the Dock Yard and other public establishments, in which are clearly delineated the exact boundaries of the several parishes, of the borough of Portsmouth and the borough under the Reform Bill shewing every fence which forms such boundaries and over which they pass and the side along which they run. Surveyed and executed in lithography by I.T. & C. Lewis, Winchester 1835.'
Comments on map:
Scope of map sufficiently indicated by its title: rather similar to Kemp-Nicholls-Dewhurst type. Certainly not a street-map.
Scale:
1:12,672
Map-maker:
I.T. & C.Lewis, Winchester [sv, lith, pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
55.0 x 67.5
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
boundaries: Includes note as to extent of jurisdiction.
Colouring:
Buildings, water
Road names:
partly: Most in Portsmouth, few elsewhere.
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
windmills, (symbol): Large symbols.
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards: [Dock Yard in some detail, with Mast Pond, Boat Pound and Graving Docks].
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries, town gates, magazines/arsenals, town walls: Lines of fortification in some detail; Engineers Office.
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Recreation and sports venues:
bathing: [Bathing Machines].
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, Parish
Known copies of map:
TNA [PRO] T72/14 [1833]; Portsmouth Library, Portsmouth RO [photocopies]; BOL C17:70 Portsmouth (27), CUL maps.bb.63.97.1,5 [1970: Portsmouth Library].
Industry:
salt, bricks/tiles
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa
Waterbodies:
shown
Commons:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown
Stated measuerments:
other: Distance to Ryde from Kings Rooms & Baths (4m.1q.1fg.).
Ordnance Survey's
1861
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1880-5
1:500
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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