Kent-Dover-1757 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20993

Map Date:

? 1757

Repository reference:

BLML MT 6.d.1(3)

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:

'Plan of the town and port of Dover.'

Comments on map:

Inset on 'Plan of the coast of Kent from Ramsgate to Rye', 70.7 x 45.0, 1:126,720: not a chart, as no soundings, and little 'offshore' detail. Dated 1757 in BLML 1967 catalogue: '1770' pencilled on the map itself. Something of a rough imitation of the Board of Ordnance style.

Scale:

1:9600

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

23.5 x 17.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, general highlighting of district: Green land-tint.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Known copies of map:

BLML M.T.6.d.1(3).

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Relief:

prominent hills

Miscellaneous physical features:

Devils Drop.

Ordnance Survey's

1858-9

1:500

1871

1:2500

1:10,560

1881-4

1:500

1896-7

1:2500

1:10,560