Kent-Dover-1787 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18582

Map Date:

? 1787

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/248

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:

'Survey of the environs of Dover with works upon the heights to the N.W. of the town.'

Comments on map:

Less detailed in its 'civil' content than is Exeter 18580.

Scale:

1:6336

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

82.4 x 52.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, other: Fortifications.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/248.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Relief:

slopes shown

Stated measuerments:

soundings

Ordnance Survey's

1858-9

1:500

1871

1:2500

1:10,560

1881-4

1:500

1896-7

1:2500

1:10,560