Plymouth-1780
CBTM:
18747
Map Date:
1780
Repository reference:
West Country Studies Library PM B/PLY/1780/COW
Town name:
Saltash, Millbrook, Plympton Earls, Plympton St Mary, Devonport, Stonehouse, Plymouth
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SX480540
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SX 4862
Map title:
'A plan of the town, citadel, dock, and sound of Plymouth, with their environs. Surveyed by Richard. Cowl, & Planned by L.S. de la Rochette. Engraved by Wm. Faden 1780.'
Comments on map:
Map 'engraved', but no publication note apparent: a distant ancestor of GSGS 3906?? Below the title is a 'Reference to the Batteries', with both the numbers of guns and their bore. Not an 'urban map', but, within the limits of scale, agrees exactly with Cowl's 1:3000 map [Exeter 18748].
Scale:
1:25,344*
Map-maker:
Richard Cowl [sv], L.S. De la Rochette [dr], William Faden [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
70.3 x 50.3
Number of parts:
1
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
windmills
Water transport infrastructure:
navigation aids, naval dockyards: [Ordnance Wharf, but lack of other internal dockyard details at Devonport].
Sanitary and utility information:
reservoirs
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries, town walls: [Batteries, identified by letter].
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Elizabeth Stuart's no.171. Hydrographic Dept B21 Shelf Qf, West Country Studies Library PM B/PLY/1780/COW.
Industry:
lime/cement
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Relief:
prominent hills
Ordnance Survey's
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1863
1:2500
1:10,560
1884
1:2500
1:10,560
1892
1:2500
1:10,560
1892-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1861-2
1:2500
1:10,560
1861-2
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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