Plymouth-1584
CBTM:
19717
Map Date:
? 1584
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 186.h.1(60)
Town name:
Saltash, Devonport, Stonehouse, Plymouth
Map type:
Military
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SX480540
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SX 4555
Comments on map:
'Rotograph' copy by Office of Works, 1938, from original at Hatfield House. Not really to scale, especially south-north, where the map reaches to Tavistock. No real 'urban' detail. The copy is at 77 per cent of original size, so scale and dimensions have been compensated.
Scale:
1:20,000*
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
67.5 x 83.0
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
other: Note that the mileages on the water channel are of 1000 paces of 5 feet each.
Colouring:
other: Appears to be 'full colour' treatment.
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial: Streets not really shown.
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Sir Francis Drake's water channel, with mileages.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)
Known copies of map:
Elizabeth Stuart's no.8. Hatfield Ho Vol I, no.60, c.1:17,100 [S.8]
Relief:
'molehills'
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial shipping.
Ordnance Survey's
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1858-9
1:2500
1:10,560
1883
1:2500
1:10,560
1892
1:2500
1:10,560
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