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Plymouth-1774

CBTM:
22897
Map Date:
[1774]
Repository reference:
BL Kings MS 44, fol. 15
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 draught of Plymouth Sound and Catwater shewing all the sands, rocks, and shoals...'
Comments on map:
Of more military and maritime than urban interest. At top of map are sailing directions and notes on moorings. In a volume giving comparative accounts of royal dockyards in 1698 and 1774. Usual colourful Board of Ordnance style, with rural land-use indicated.
Scale:
1:12,000
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
73.0 x 98.0 [map 73.0 x 77.0].
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards: [Dockyard shown inn all the detail of which the scale is capable, though without text].
Places of Worship:
incomplete Anglican/established only, (pictorial): St Andrew, Stoke and Stonehouse only.
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Known copies of map:
Elizabeth Stuart's no.154: BL Royal MS 44, fol.15 [S.154].
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Gardens:
shown
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
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
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