Plymouth-1780 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19810

Map Date:

1780

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.11.79 [roll]

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 with a project for the defence of the arsenals of Plymouth, by Lieut. Colonel Dixon Chief Engineer of the Plymouth division.'

Comments on map:

Elizabeth Stuart's no.170. Revised and corrected by Geo. Beck, Jan. 1780; to accompany Report by Mattw Dixon, Plymouth Dock, 10 January 1780, on defence of the arsenals (rolled with the map).

Scale:

1:9600

Map-maker:

Geo. Beck [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

96.5 x 65.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use, other: Hachures, foreshore, agricultural land-use.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Both Plymouth and Devonport shown in standard Ordnance fashion for civil built-up areas, i.e. uninformative about internal detail.

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

landmarks only: Stoke and Maker named; St Andrew Plymouth seems to be indicated by 'greek' double-cross.

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls: [Lines round Devonport shown; numerous forts, etc, round Plymouth and Devonport; Gun Wharfe and King's Dock-yard are left blank].

Known copies of map:

Elizabeth Stuart's no.170. BL K.Top XI.79 [a roll, .2.TAB] [original]; Plymouth Archives Ph.355/15-21 (/22 is 'grid', ?ref, for this) [photo].

Industry:

rope walk

Gardens:

shown: [Only shown at Plymouth].

Relief:

slopes shown: More sophisticated than earlier mapping [Exeter 19809, etc].

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

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