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Hampshire-Portsmouth-1881

CBTM:
19850
Map Date:
? 1881
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 2620 (2)
Historic county:
Hampshire
Town name:
Portsmouth, Southsea
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SZ635995
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SU 6203
Map title:
[Cover:] 'Curtiss & Sons' Map of Portsmouth'.
Comments on map:
Undated: BM RD 9 FEB 1881 blue. Advertising surrounds map and on back (concealed by mounting). Cover proclaims: 'This map can only be obtained of Curtiss & Sons, Railway and Shipping Agents and Government contractors...'
Scale:
1:12,672*
Map-maker:
Curtiss & Sons, Railway & Shipping Agents, 88, 90, 94, 96 Broad St Portsmouth, and Esplanade, Ryde [pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
27.0 x 34.0 [map].
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
other: Curtiss & Sons offices (black blocks).
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
some or all buildings omitted.
Water transport infrastructure:
piers, naval dockyards: Dock yard: no detail.
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 2620(4).
Railways:
routes, named, passenger stations
Miscellaneous:
Unclear what rows of marks along some streets are: tramways?
Parkland:
public parks
Retail activity:
publisher of map: [Curtiss's premises].
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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