Plymouth-1694
CBTM:
19802
Map Date:
? 1694
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.11.74.1, 74.2
Town name:
Torpoint, 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:
Dating from Elizabeth Stuart: no.52. Vauge street-pattern at Plymouth: otherwise everywhere else is only indicated symbolically, and the map is only included here on grounds of scale. Its general look harks back 100-150 years.
Scale:
1:15,840
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
70.7 x 52.0, 69.5 x 49.3
Number of parts:
2
Colouring:
water, boundaries, land-use: Some lime-greeny trees.
Buildings:
'ordinary' buildings pictorial, noticeably generalised: Pictorial buildings, except in Plymouth.
Places of Worship:
landmarks only, (pictorial): A few isolated ones, e.g. Stoke, Maker.
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries: [Citadel: undescribed, but in more detail than anything else on the map].
Known copies of map:
Elizabeth Stuart's no.52: BLML K.Top.11.74.1, K.Top 11.74.2.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Inset of St Nicholas Island on south sheet; another panel is blank.
Relief:
'molehills'
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
1857-9
1:2500
1:10,560
1884
1:2500
1:10,560
1892-3
1:2500
1:10,560
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