Sussex-Rye-1778 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22909

Map Date:

8.1778

Repository reference:

BL Add. MS.15533, fo. 66 ['133']

Historic county:

Sussex

Town name:

Rye, Winchelsea

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TQ922203

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 9119

Map title:

'A plan of Playdon Heights the towns of Rye and Winchelsea Cadboro Hill and the rivers Surveyed in Augt: 1778 by I:W: Green Asst: to the Q:M:Genl:'.

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. Centre right are notes on harbours and relative heights: weather cock on Rye steeple noted as 'about 300 feet above the Salts'.

Scale:

1:10,560

Map-maker:

I:W: Green Asst: to the Q:M:Genl: [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

49.7 x 56.3

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, other: Rural land-use shown.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

navigation aids, wharfs, misc: Boathouses.

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates: With note of armaments.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

BL Add. MS.15533, fo. 66 ['133'].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore, sluices

Gardens:

shown

Magnetic data:

diagram

Antiquities:

Chapel ruins [at Winchelsea].

Relief:

slopes shown

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Milestone [pictorial] with distances.

Miscellaneous physical features:

Shingle ridges.

Dedicee of map:

[Volume:] The King.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

out-of-town inns only

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Stated measuerments:

other: Depth in river at point where may be forded.

Ordnance Survey's

1871-2

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560

1872

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560