Kent-Dover-1530
CBTM:
23155
Map Date:
? 1530
Repository reference:
BL Cotton Augustus I.i.19
Historic county:
Kent
Town name:
Dover
Map type:
Military
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TR318416
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TL 3247
Map title:
[Written in centre of map:] 'A Plott for the making the Hauen of Douer.'
Comments on map:
Reputedly c.1530-32: more a birds-eye view than a plan map, and included on grounds of 'early' date.
Scale:
1:5000*
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
136.0 x 54.0
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, land-use
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Water transport infrastructure:
misc: Breakwaters.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): With cannon firing.
Known copies of map:
BL Cotton.Aug.I.i.19.
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial shipping in sea, and pictorial sluices at head of haven.
Ordnance Survey's
1858-9
1:500
1871