Kent-Chatham-1768 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23497

Map Date:

1768

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MF 1/54

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:

'Plan de Rochester et des Chantiers de Chatham ....'

Comments on map:

Planche 2, accompanying report of 8-9 September 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:

1:20,000*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

18.5 x 28.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

other: Apparently naval anchorage.

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

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

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