Kent-Dover-1590 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19719

Map Date:

? 1590

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 186.H.1(58)

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:

'Rotograph' copy by Office of Works, 1938, from original at Hatfield House. Scale-map, without scale: BLML typed handlist says there is a pencil note 'Tho. Milles for Willm Lord Cobham', top right [not visible in this copy]. The copy is at 103 per cent of original size, so scale and dimensions have been compensated.

Scale:

1:4000*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

65.0 x 46.7

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries: With internal walls and cannon.

Markets and exchanges:

cross, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

Hatfield House, Cecil Papers [original]; BLML Maps 186.H.1(58) [photo]; BL L.R. 413.g.13, CUL 879.bb.4.48 [1971: plate 8 in A description of maps and Architectural drawings in the collection made by William Cecil..., 1971.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Relief:

'molehills'

Stated measuerments:

other: 'The trew height of certayne places, above the level of ful sea mark', in fathoms: 14 places, all of military interest (cliff-tops, castle, etc).

Ordnance Survey's

1858-9

1:500

1871

1:2500

1:10,560

1881-4

1:500

1896-7

1:2500

1:10,560