Maps of West Thorney

Maps of West Thorney

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Sussex LX.15 (includes: Chidham; West Thorney) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Sussex LX.15 (includes: Chidham; West Thorney) - 25 Inch Map

1 : 2500 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Sussex LX.SE - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Sussex LX.SE - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Sussex LX - OS Six-Inch Map

1 : 10560 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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SU70 - OS 1:25,000 Provisional Series Map

1 : 25000 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Portsmouth (Outline) - OS One-Inch Revised New Series

1 : 63360 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Portsmouth (Hills) - OS One-Inch Revised New Series

1 : 63360 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Arundel 8

1 : 31680 The Ordnance Survey took particular care in plotting the south coast of England, as this was the area most immediately vulnerable to invasion. This plan notes military barracks at Selsea, Aldwick and Bognor to the bottom right of the plan. Buildings are blocked in red and black ink and infilled at Chichester, in the centre of the plan, and Arundel, at the right. A poor house and pest house are located a considerable distance beyond the boundaries of Chichester.
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A coloured chart of Portsmouth Harbour, Spithead, and part of the Isle of Wight, on a scale of one mile to an inch

This is a map of Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight dating from 1585. It has been annotated by William Cecil Lord Burghley, Secretary of State to Elizabeth I, who has added the names "Westburhunt" and "Chichest". Burghley was an avid map collector and his application of geographical knowledge to matters of government is well known. Three beacons are indicated on 'Portesdowne', showing the systems in place for alerting the locality in an invasion scenario. Either side of these beacons are red windmill symbols named "westmyll" and "estmill", two further windmills, again highlighted in red, lie towards the centre of the map. It is likely that these have been highlighted due to their height which would facilitate their use as vantage points or beacons. There is a scale bar indicating a scale of one inch to a mile. Portsmouth became the focus of a new program of defensive works in 1584. Since the accession of the Protestant Elizabeth I to the English throne in 1558 Anglo-Spanish relationship had deteriorated. The continued English raids on Spanish colonial interests and England’s support of the Protestant rebellion in the Spanish ruled Netherlands had induced the Catholic Philip II to plan an invasion of England. It is likely that this map, detailing the beacons in the area, was produced for military purposes connected with the strengthening of the defences for the Portsmouth area against the expected Spanish Invasion. William Cecil, Lord Burghley
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Nieuwe afteekening van de reede van Portsmouth, Spithead en St. Hellens Road aen de Oost zijde vant eijland Wight in het Kanaal

England Johannes van Keulen
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Vectis insvla. anglice the isle of Wight

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 37 x 49 cm Blaeu Joan Blaeu
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Nieuwe afteekening van de reede van Portsmouth, Spithead en St. Hellens Road aen de Oost zijde vant eijland Wight in het Kanaal

England Gerard van Keulen
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Description of the Isle of Wight

This map of the Isle of Wight dates from around 1600. It is titled on the reverse "Description of the Isle of Wight". A scale bar is included with the motif of dividers, stating ‘Scala Miliaria’, revealing that the map is drawn on a scale of half an inch to one mile. We can not be certain of the identity of the cartographer of this map but it may be one which is thought to have been produced by William White, which was then augmented and published by John Speed in his Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine. Both this map and the Speed map exaggerate the width of waterways, the depth of bays and prominence of headlands, in a similar way. Such exaggerations suggest that this map was not the result of survey and was drawn by eye. The beacon network on the island is shown by pictorial representations of individual beacons. The Needles are represented by three squat triangles and labelled ‘The nedles’. The period during which this map was produced saw England at war with Spain. The emphasis on the beacon network suggests that the map is concerned with defence in this climate of unease. Since the accession of the Protestant Elizabeth I to the English throne in 1558 Anglo-Spanish relationship had deteriorated. The continued English raids on Spanish colonial interests and England’s support of the Protestant rebellion in the Spanish ruled Netherlands had induced the Catholic Philip II to plan an invasion of England. Although the Spanish were dramatically defeated by the English in 1588, England remained at war with Spain for many years and further attempts to invade were made by Philip of Spain with the dispersal of the ‘second Armada’ in October 1596 and the assembly of the ‘third Armada’ in the following spring. White, William
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Isle of Wight / Geological Survey of England and Wales

1 : 63360 Annotatie: New Series, sheets 330, 331, 344, 345 Geological Survey of England and Wales Southampton : Ordnance Survey of England
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Vectis Insula Anglice The Isle of Wight. [Karte], in: Novus atlas absolutissimus, Bd. 8, S. 104.

1 Karte aus Atlas Janssonius Offizin
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Chichester - OS One-Inch Map

1 : 63360 Topographic maps Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey
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Een gedeelte van het Kanaal van de Hoek van Bevesier tot Bowleij

England Gerard van Keulen
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To the right honorable the master, wardens & elder brethren of the Trinity House, this chart of Spithead is ... dedicated

1 : 110000 Heather, W. (William) Heather and Williams
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Carte réduite de l'isle de Wight et costes voisines

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 53 x 82 cm Bellin s.n.
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Sussex, Sheet 32 - Bartholomew's "Half Inch to the Mile Maps" of England & Wales

1 : 126720 Topographic maps Bartholomew, John George John Bartholomew & Co
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New Forrest & Isle of Wight, Sheet 33 - Bartholomew's "Half Inch to the Mile Maps" of England & Wales

1 : 126720 Topographic maps Bartholomew, John George John Bartholomew & Co
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Hantonia sive Sovthantonensis comitatvs vulgo Hant-shire

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 40 x 48 cm Blaeu Joan Blaeu
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Suthsexia vernacule Sussex

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 36 x 49 cm Valck; Schenk apud Gerardum Valk et Petrum Schenk
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Svthsexia; vernacule Svssex

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 37 x 51 cm Blaeu Joan Blaeu
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Der Kanal

1 : 150000 Lamanšský průliv Reichs-Marine-Amt
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Sheets 15-16. (Cary's England, Wales, and Scotland).

1 : 360000 Cary, John, ca. 1754-1835
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A new improved map of Hampshire

1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 51 x 67 cm Kitchin; Hinton sold by I. Hinton at the Kings Arms in St. Pauls Church Yard
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