Kent-Chatham-1725 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21003

Map Date:

1725

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.16.31.2

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 *

Map title:

'A plan of the River Medway with the fortifications thereon 1725.'

Comments on map:

Generalised, and only included on grounds of scale.

Scale:

1:19,800

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

102.3 x 50.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

altitude information

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, general highlighting of district: Trees.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

naval dockyards: [No text].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BLML K.Top.16.31.2, K.Top.16.31.3.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Coloured compass boss, and ship off Sheerness.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Stated measuerments:

soundings: In feet: taken at low water springs.

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