Kent-Dover-1610 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21494

Map Date:

? 1610

Repository reference:

Centre for Kentish Studies Map 16/16

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Dover

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TR318416

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TR 3247

Map title:

'Platt of Dover castel towne and harbor.'

Comments on map:

Seems to be touched-up photocopy of uncertain provenance. Historical note bottom left, including gift of lands to town in 1605. Dating from Centre for Kentish Studies list.

Scale:

1:3960

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

80 x 52

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, decorative: Possibly other colours.

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Water transport infrastructure:

piers

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): [Castle shown in detail].

Markets and exchanges:

markets, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

Centre for Kentish Studies Map 16/16.

Antiquities:

Monastic remains.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Borders:

decorative: Coloured.

Arms and heraldry:

royal arms, municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1858-9

1:500

1871

1:2500

1:10,560

1881-4

1:500

1896-7

1:2500

1:10,560