Hampshire-Southampton-1768 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23500

Map Date:

1768

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MF 1/54

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:

Planche 10, accompanying report of 1 October 1768. The set also includes the Tower of London and Windsor Castle, and a general monolingual map of England and Wales published by John Rocque, April 1760, c.1:1,350,000. Style is broadly similar to Board of Ordnance, but hills are brown-sepia shading.

Scale:

1:25,000

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

16.3 x 27.8

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MF 1/54.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Relief:

slopes shown

Ordnance Survey's

1865-7

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1895-6

1:2500

1:10,560