Kent-Chatham-1750
CBTM:
18508
Map Date:
? 1750
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/54
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:
'Plan of the River Medway from Rochester to Sheerness with the new line at Chatham and the fortifications adjacent &c &c'.
Comments on map:
Evidently derived from Exeter 18501, etc. Includes similar depiction of Sheerness and Queenborough, the latter (as elsewhere on this map) with a pictorial church. 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
Map-maker:
Rd Coombs [dr].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
103.8 x 44.3
Number of parts:
1
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards: Dockyard: not in great detail.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town walls, misc.: Various bastions and batteries named.
Known copies of map:
TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/54 [two apparently identical MS copies ].
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Gardens:
shown
Relief:
slopes shown
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland
Stated measuerments:
soundings: Soundings in river below Long Reach.
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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