Kent-Sheerness: Blue Town-1811 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18613

Map Date:

? 1811

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/1214

Historic county:

Kent

Town name:

Sheerness: Blue Town

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ913752

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 8968

Comments on map:

Beach shown in some detail, and noted as surveyed 28 February 1811. Garrison and dockyard areas shown in considerable detail.

Scale:

1:1200

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

109 x 118

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water, land-use

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

naval dockyards: 'Old Forest' with numerous recumbent treetrunks on one of the wharves.

Defence and military:

misc.: Guard House, Shed for Field Train.

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/1214.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown: With allocatee (chaplain, C.R.E., etc).

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1861-2

1:528

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560