Dummer 1698 - Lymington chart features: HMCMS:FA1991.24.10

	South Coast Harbours 1698 report by Edmund Dummer and Thomas Wiltshaw

	Chart Features - Lymington
title cartouche title	The map's title cartouche bottom centre is a panel surrounded by foliage scrolls tinted in reds, greens and yellows. Top centre is a ?helmet with spears and flags to each side. The title is:- Lymington River East of Hurst Castle within the Isle of Wight The central item above the cartouche could be a cresset - perhaps the basket of Jack? The cartouche contains:-
scale line scale	A scale line chequered red and white in quarter miles:- A Scale of one Mile The 1 mile = 72.1mm; assuming a modern statute mile this gives a scale 1 to 22290, or if a sea mile of 6082.96ft then 1 to 25715. The map scale is about:- 1 to 22000 or 1 to 25000 25. or 3 inches to 1 mile
orientation compass rose up is NW	The map has a compass rose. There are four star points for the cardinal directions, tinted red/pink, and four more for the half cardinal directions, tinted grey/blue. North is marked by a yellow fleur de lys. Up on the sheet is NNW.
table of data	There are tables at left and right at the bottom of the map, in plain rectangular cartouches. These explain letters used to mark some features of the map. Eg:- b. Salt Panns
sea plain foreshore sea marks	The sea is plain, uncoloured. The expanse of sand or mud flats at the mouth of the Lymington River is tinted sandy brown and is drawn with many creeks off the main channel. The outer marker of the channel into the river is a post with triangle and circle at the top, named:- a. Jack in the Baskett The land is tinted pale green.
rivers harbours	The subject of the map is the Lymington River. It is drawn for about 3 miles from sea to just above the town. The navigable channel in the river is marked all the way up by posts, the circle at the top tinted dark green. Lymington is by a meander, where there is a landing stage at the harbour.
settlements	Settlements are drawn by groups of houses, roofs tinted grey-blue, with groups of trees, tinted emerald green. Lymington, a town, has a church with a tower, and a turret? on that, and is not named. It has a landing stage at the river's edge. Other settlements are small and unnamed, except:- c. Buckland where is drawn a great house.
roads	Two roads are shown, each by a double line for its edges, plus a line of dots down the middle for the track itself. The roads are marked:- e. Road to Beauley running westward from Lymington, and:- d. Road to Christ Church running northward parallel the river.
salterns windpumps	Along the shore of river estuary and sea, south of Lymington, are extensive:- b. Salt Panns Many rectangular ponds are drawn, tinted blue at their edges, and some windpumps, and some buildings.

compare Collins 1693 Dummer 1698	Click images to enlarge
	Lymington River as shown on Collins' South Coast (1693), on Dummer's Southampton (1698), and on Dummer's Lymington (1698), respectively. Dummer and Wiltshaw's chart of Lymington has details not shown in the chart by Greenvile Collins.

	Lymington, Hampshire
	South Coast Harbours 1698 report by Edmund Dummer and Thomas Wiltshaw