Map Collection

Dummer 1698
FA1991.24.11:- 
Chart, hand coloured manuscript, The Christchurch River, ie River Avon and River Stour, Christchurch, Dorset, 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:-  title cartouche & compass rose & scale line & streets & rivers & harbours
inscription:-  ms -on- : Christ Church / River Westward / of Hurst Castle wth: out ye / Isle of Wight -- wreath cartouche
scale line:-  1 mile = 72.1 mm (what miles?)
dimension:-  wxh, map = 203x314mm
scale = 1 to 25000 ? (1 to 22290 from scale line assuming a statute mile or 1 to 25715 assuming a sea mile)

  Map Group -- Dummer 1698 -- with Research Notes

town names:- 
Christ Church Hampshire
map name modern name
Christ Church Christchurch

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MN: 25.2.2002