Sussex-Littlehampton-1768 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23501

Map Date:

1768

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MF 1/54

Historic county:

Sussex

Town name:

Littlehampton

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ030020

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 0907

Map title:

'Plan de l'embouchure de la Rivierre d' Arun ....'

Comments on map:

Planche 12, accompanying report of 4 October 1768. The set also includes the Tower of London and Windsor Castle, and a general monolingual map of England and Wales published by John Rocque, April 1760, c.1:1,350,000. Style is broadly similar to Board of Ordnance, but hills are brown-sepia shading.

Scale:

1:15,000*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

22.5 x 28.7

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MF 1/54.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Relief:

slopes shown