Maps of Portsmouth

Maps of Portsmouth

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Map of Portsmouth

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Town of Portsmouth

This is a map of Portsmouth, showing the old town and extending to cover Gosport. It dates from around 1552. The old town is shown in some detail, including the defences, buildings, streets, house plots and fields. The purpose of the plan seems to be to show the progress of the works that began in 1545 and finished in 1551. However, there are some differences between what this plan shows and what was eventually built. For example the bulwark adjacent to Guy’s Bastion appears here in a form that was not adopted. This suggests that the defences along the north-east wall show proposals and not completed works. The north east section of the plan is drawn in greater detail that other areas, supporting the idea that works here were still under consideration. Apart from Guy’s Bastion, the north-eastern defences were eventually built as this plan depicts, notably with a square bastion at the western end and an orillon -type bastion at the main gate. The exact date of the map is uncertain but it was drawn sometime between works commencing in 1545 and 1563 when the Town Quay was rebuilt in a manner different to that presented here. In 1552 Portsmouth saw the arrival of John Rogers, the military engineer who came to survey the town and also King Edward VI, who professed himself to be unhappy with the state of the defences and devised two strong castellis on either side of the Haven at the mouth thereof’. It is likely that this plan is connected with these visits as it combines existing features and also proposals for future works and therefore a date of the early 1550’s can be suggested.
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Plan of Portsmouth from 1545

Although unremarkable in appearance this map of Portsmouth is of great significance in the context of the history of cartography. Dating from 1545 this plan is in fact the earliest map of any town in Britain to be drawn entirely to scale. Unlike many maps or plans of the period no attempts to show features of the town pictorially have been made, making this plan closer to what we now perceive as a plan than many of its contemporaries. Few parallel examples of plans of this date, drawn entirely to scale, exist anywhere else in Europe. The plan sets out proposals for improving the defences of the town after the events of July 19th whenthe French and English fleets met in Spithead, the Mary Rose was sunk and the French landed on the nearby Isle of Wight. The plan shows a transverse rampart and ditch which cuts off the north east section of the walled area cut off from the rest of the town. The idea of adding an angle-bastion of contemporary Italian type to the south east rampart is indicated in pencil. The alterations shown here were not carried out but the proposals are of importance none the less as they show the earliest scheme for fortifying an English town with a fully flanked bastion system in the Italian style.
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Hampshire and Isle of Wight LXXXIII.11 (includes: Alverstoke; Portsmouth) - 25 Inch Map

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Hampshire and Isle of Wight LXXXIII.11 (includes: Alverstoke; Portsmouth) - 25 Inch Map

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Hampshire and Isle of Wight LXXXIII.11 (includes: Alverstoke; Portsmouth) - 25 Inch Map

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Hampshire and Isle of Wight LXXXIII.11 (includes: Alverstoke; Portsmouth) - 25 Inch Map

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Hampshire and Isle of Wight LXXXIII.7 (includes: Alverstoke; Portsmouth) - 25 Inch Map

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Hampshire and Isle of Wight LXXXIII.7 (includes: Alverstoke; Portsmouth) - 25 Inch Map

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Hampshire and Isle of Wight LXXXIII.7 (includes: Alverstoke; Portsmouth) - 25 Inch Map

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Hampshire and Isle of Wight LXXXIII.7 (includes: Alverstoke; Portsmouth) - 25 Inch Map

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Hampshire and Isle of Wight LXXXIII.12 (includes: Portsmouth) - 25 Inch Map

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Hampshire and Isle of Wight LXXXIII.12 (includes: Portsmouth) - 25 Inch Map

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII - OS Six-Inch Map

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.SE - OS Six-Inch Map

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.SE - OS Six-Inch Map

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.SE - OS Six-Inch Map

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.SE - OS Six-Inch Map

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.SE - OS Six-Inch Map

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.SE - OS Six-Inch Map

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.NE - OS Six-Inch Map

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.NE - OS Six-Inch Map

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.NE - OS Six-Inch Map

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.NE - OS Six-Inch Map

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.NE - OS Six-Inch Map

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.NE - OS Six-Inch Map

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Hampshire and Isle of Wight LXXXIII.8 (includes: Portsmouth) - 25 Inch Map

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Hampshire and Isle of Wight LXXXIII.8 (includes: Portsmouth) - 25 Inch Map

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Hampshire and Isle of Wight LXXXIII.8 (includes: Portsmouth) - 25 Inch Map

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Hampshire and Isle of Wight LXXXIII.8 (includes: Portsmouth) - 25 Inch Map

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