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Kent-Ramsgate-1736

CBTM:
21477
Map Date:
[1736]
Repository reference:
BL 186.a.3
Historic county:
Kent
Town name:
Ramsgate
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TR380650
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TR 3566
Map title:
'A plan of the town and pier of Ramsgate....'
Comments on map:
Plate XXIII, f.p.175, in John Lewis, The history and antiquities... of the Isle of Tenet..., 2nd edition, London: John Lewis, etc, 1736.
Scale:
1:4752
Map-maker:
I. Long, T. Ames [authors], I. Myrde [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
17.3 x 23.8
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only: [Capt Abbot's Houfe].
Buildings:
shown
Mills:
windmills, (pictorial)
Water transport infrastructure:
piers, misc: Ships on side in harbour.
Known copies of map:
BL 186.a.3, G.4042, 577.k.24, BOL Gough Maps 14 Fol 21, CUL Ll.13.22, Margate Lib. [originals]; East Kent Archives R/U.74/1 [MS copy]; CUL 9474.b.1361 [1985: in C. Busson, The book of Ramsgate].
Industry:
rope walk
River and foreshore features:
foreshore, foreshore material specified
Dedicee of map:
Capt Thos Abbot, Capt Adam Spencer and the Gentlemen of Ramsgate.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1871-2
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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