Plymouth-1782 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22910

Map Date:

? 1782

Repository reference:

BL Add. MS.15533, fo. 80 ['161']

Town name:

Torpoint, Devonport, Stonehouse, Plymouth

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX480540

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SXC 4555

Map title:

'Plan of the environs of Plymouth'.

Comments on map:

In volume of plans of 'Encampments and Dispositions of the Army in Great Britain from 1778 to 1782': standard 'Board of Ordnance' style, but all appear to originate from the Quarter-Master General's Department. Scale is unusual for a military map, but this is what the scale-bars (yards and furlongs) say.

Scale:

1:9504

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

96.0 x 54.7

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, other: Rural land-use shown; encampment distinctly coloured.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

watermills

Water transport infrastructure:

naval dockyards, quays, misc: Victualling Office, Gun Wharf.

Places of Worship:

incomplete Anglican/established only: St Aubyn in Devonport omitted.

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BL Add. MS.15533, fo. 80 ['161'].

Industry:

lime/cement, rope walk: Rope walk pictorial.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

slopes shown

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Ferries:

ferry

Dedicee of map:

[Volume:] The King.

Ordnance Survey's

1892-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

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