Sussex-Hastings-1760 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18652

Map Date:

? 1760

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/915

Historic county:

Sussex

Town name:

Hastings

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ825995

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 7811

Map title:

'A plan of the town of Hastings (one of the Cinque Ports)'.

Comments on map:

Inset on 'A plan of the coast of Sussex from Rye to Chichester': does not seem to cover whole built up area, and what there is is heavily generalised. Scale stated to be 1 inch to 30 feet (1:360); probably 300 feet is meant (1:3600).

Scale:

1:3600

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

23.7 x 18.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

lighthouses, misc: Ruins of Old Peer; odd structures around high water mark: net houses??

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MR 1/915.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1872

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897-8

1:2500

1:10,560