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Kent-Chatham-1720

CBTM:
18502
Map Date:
1720
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/76
Historic county:
Kent
Town name:
Chatham, Sheerness, Rochester, Queenborough
Map type:
Military
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ756678
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 7569
Map title:
'A plan of the River Medway with the fortifications adjacent, &c.'
Comments on map:
From chart of whole river from above Rochester to Sheerness. Exeter 18500-02 are all pretty similar, showing Queenborough as a single street, and Sheerness as a fortification without internal detail: however, Exeter 18502 is much more finely drawn, with side-streets in Rochester, e.g., and differences in orthography, and a title. Scale measured as 3.15 inches to 1 mile, i.e. 1 inch to 558 yards; this has been 'rationalised' to 1 inch to 550 yards, 1:19,800.
Scale:
1:19,800
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
103.0 x 50.7
Number of parts:
1
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town walls
Known copies of map:
TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/76; TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/54 [copy].
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Relief:
slopes shown
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland
Ordnance Survey's
1861-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1895-6
1:2500
1:10,560
1861-4
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
1861-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1885
1:500
1895-6
1:2500
1:10,560
1861-2
1:528
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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