Kent-Dover-1580 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18585

Map Date:

? 1580

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MPF 1/122

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Dover

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TR318416

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TR 3247

Comments on map:

Photograph, with accompanying note, on TNA [PRO] Chancery Lane paper: 'Alternative plan of Dover Haven, of which the original is preserved at Hatfield. (Presented by William Minet, Esq., of Hadham Hall, Hertfordshire). H.G.H. 7/9/1917.' [Dating exceedingly tentative.]

Scale:

1:6000*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

27.2 x 20.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

breakwaters, piers

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MPF 1/122.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1858-9

1:500

1871

1:2500

1:10,560

1881-4

1:500

1896-7

1:2500

1:10,560