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Kent-Dover-1768

CBTM:
23496
Map Date:
1768
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] MF 1/54
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
Map title:
'Plan du Port de la Ville et du Cateau de Douvres ....'
Comments on map:
Planche 1, accompanying report of 7 September and 30-31 October 1768. The set also includes the Tower of London and Windsor Castle, and a general monolingual map of England and Wales published by John Rocque, April 1760, c.1:1,350,000. Style is broadly similar to Board of Ordnance, but hills are brown-sepia shading.
Scale:
1:7500*
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
34.2 x 27.8
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries: [In detail, including positions of cannon].
Known copies of map:
TNA [PRO] MF 1/54.
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Relief:
slopes 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
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