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Kent-Sheerness-1781

CBTM:
20999
Map Date:
1.1781
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.17.17
Historic county:
Kent
Town name:
Sheerness
Map type:
Military
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
TQ915751
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 8968
Map title:
'Plan of the present state of Sheerness with the proposed works marked yellow 1780.'
Comments on map:
'References' dated January 1781. Usual Board of Ordnance style. Unlike the 1725 map [Exeter 20998], this does show civil building: 'The Blue Houses.
Scale:
1:2400
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
60.5 x 46.2
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, general highlighting of district, other: Proposed fort.
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town walls: [Buildings inside are named in detail].
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Known copies of map:
BLML K.Top.17.17 [original]; Medway Archives [transcript: map drawers].
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative: Scroll: unusual for a Board of Ordnance plan.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland
Ordnance Survey's
1861-2
1:528
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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