Map Collection

Dummer 1698
FA1991.24.7:- 
Map, hand coloured manuscript, The River of Southampton, ie River Test etc, Southampton Water, Hampshire, by Edmund Dummer and Captain Thomas Wiltshaw, Royal Navy, 1698.
Published in A Survey of the Ports on the South West Coast of England from Dover to the Lands-end.
map feature:-  hand drawn & title cartouche & compass rose & scale line & streets & rivers & harbours
inscription:-  ms -on- foliage cartouche The River of / Southampton wth: the / scituation of Bussleton / Beauley & Lymingon / Rivers within the Isle of / Wight
scale line:-  3 miles = 63.5 mm (what miles?)
dimension:-  wxh, sheet = 42x35.5cm
wxh, map = 390x315mm
scale = 1 to 88000 ? (1 to 76032 from scale line assuming a statute mile or 1 to 87594 assuming a sea mile)

  Map Group -- Dummer 1698 -- with Research Notes

town names:- 
Hampshire Hampshire
map name modern name
Lymington Lymington
Southampton Southampton

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MN: 25.2.2002