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Hampshire-Southampton-1650

CBTM:
22833
Map Date:
? 1650
Repository reference:
BL Add. MS. 11564 ('16' [recte fols 33-34])
Historic county:
Hampshire
Town name:
Southampton
Map type:
Military
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SU425115
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SU 4513
Map title:
'Plan de Southampton.'
Comments on map:
Evidently derived from Speed. In a volume, untitled, of 116 manuscript 'town plans' of Europe, in which the main interest seems to be in the fortifications and buildings outside the walls, rather than in building-up within the walls. Text is in French. Scale measured as 1 inch to 96 'pas' (1:5760 if a 60-inch pace is used).
Scale:
1:5760
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
56.0 x 40.0
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, land-use, decorative
Buildings:
some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised: Omitted within walls.
Water transport infrastructure:
quays
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Public buildings:
customs: 'La Douanne'.
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): [Two gates named].
Welfare and charitable:
misc: Gods houfe.
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
BL Add.MSS.11564.ant.16.
Gardens:
shown: [Orchard-like].
Antiquities:
La Chantree.
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial shipping in quays and offshore.
Ordnance Survey's
1865-7
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1895-6
1:2500
1:10,560
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