Kent-Chatham-1724 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18507

Map Date:

1724

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/50

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Chatham, Rochester

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 from Rochester Bridge to Sharpness Point together with the Marshes, and up Lands adjacent, Survey'd in the year 1724. by J.P. Desmartez.'

Comments on map:

Possibly related to Exeter 18501, etc, and 18508, but unlike them omits Queenborough and Sheerness, and there are few soundings. Scales of miles and feet, neither 'rational': scale measured as 4.9375 inches to 0.75 mile, i.e. 1:9624: this suggests that 1:9600 may be intended.

Scale:

1:9600

Map-maker:

J.P. Desmartez [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

128.5 x 46.8

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

windmills

Water transport infrastructure:

naval dockyards

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/50 [original], MR 1/524 [similar], MPHH 1/60 [4 copies]; TNA [PRO] MR 1/503 [copies: 1724-69]; Medway Archives [map drawers: transcript].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

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

1861-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1885

1:500

1895-6

1:2500

1:10,560