Plymouth-1718 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22236

Map Date:

1718

Repository reference:

BOL Gough Maps 5, fol. 21B

Town name:

Torpoint, Devonport, Stonehouse, Plymouth

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX480540

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 4555

Map title:

'A general plan of Plymouth harbours. with the several waters, rocks, shoals, soundings and seacoast adjacent. By C. Lilly 1718'.

Comments on map:

In standard Board of Ordnance style, though looks as though later 18th century copy. Very finely penned. Reference to fortifications and associated works: civil text gets short shrift.

Scale:

1:12,672

Map-maker:

C. Lilly [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

71.5 x 50.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, decorative: Crimson and golden-yellow direction pointer.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Some towers, etc, e.g. Mount Batten, pictorial.

Water transport infrastructure:

naval dockyards: [Dockyard in some detail].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: Stoke and Maker pictorial.

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, misc.: Victualling Office, Storehouses, Naval Brewhouse.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Elizabeth Stuart's no.84: BOL Gough Maps 5 f.21B [S.84: original]; BL X.709/30511, BOL G.A.Cornw.8o 479 [1718/1976: in G. & F.L. Harris, The making of a Cornish town, Redruth: Institute of Cornish studies, 1976].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Drape-effect.

Relief:

slopes shown

Stated measuerments:

soundings

Ordnance Survey's

1892-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1892-3

1:500

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