Plymouth-1784
CBTM:
18513
Map Date:
1784
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] MR 1/1385
Town name:
Torpoint, Saltash, Millbrook, 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:
'An actual survey and measurement of Plymouth and Dock Town with their fortifications and the adjacent country. Survey'd by order of His Grace the Duke of Richmond &c Master General of the Ordnance...'
Scale:
1:10,560
Map-maker:
William Gardner [sv], Colonel Dixon (chief engineer) [dir].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
80.5 x 106.5
Number of parts:
1
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
watermills
Water transport infrastructure:
naval dockyards: [Dock yard named but left blank].
Places of Worship:
incomplete Anglican/established only: No urban churches in Plymouth.
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries, misc.: [Citadel in detail, but unnamed].
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
Elizabeth Stuart's numbers 179-182: TNA [PRO] MR 1/1385 (ex WO 78/857), Plymouth Archives Ph.35 [1784]; TNA [PRO] OS 5/4, pt 2, Plymouth Archives Ph.422/4 [1784: S.181: south part]; BL K.Top XI.80 [2 rolls, 8.TAB.END], Plymouth Archives Ph.355/23-34 (/35 is 'grid') [S.182: 1784: south part]; BL K.Top XI.80a [original], Plymouth Archives Ph.355/36-48 [photo] [1784: north part]; TNA [PRO] MR 1199 (pt 1) (ex WO 78/385/1) [original], Plymouth Archives Ph.36 [photo] [1784: S.179: noted by ES as less detailed than S.180]
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
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
1858-9
1:2500
1:10,560
1883
1:2500
1:10,560
1892
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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