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Surrey-Dorking-1780

CBTM:
22903
Map Date:
1780
Repository reference:
BL Add. MS.15533, fo. 44 ['87']
Historic county:
Surrey
Town name:
Dorking
Map type:
Military
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
TQ163498
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
TQ 1652
Map title:
'Plan of the encampment on Ranmer Common near Dorking under the command of M.Gen. Morris from 8th. June to 27th. Octr. 1780.'
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:
1:9000
Map-maker:
Ems. Morrison, Assist. to the Quar. Mast. Genl. [author].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
48.5 x 33.0
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
'standard' colour scheme, land-use, other: Rural land-use shown; encampment distinctly coloured.
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
watermills
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Defence and military:
misc.: Site of camp.
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
BL Add. MS.15533, fo. 44 ['87'].
Gardens:
shown
Waterbodies:
shown
Relief:
slopes shown
Commons:
shown
Miscellaneous street furniture:
Milestones [pictorial] with distances.
Dedicee of map:
[Volume:] The King.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
heath/uncultivated
Ordnance Survey's
1868
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1894-5
1:2500
1:10,560
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