Portsea 1896

Detailed map of Portsea; Hants sheet 83.07. Introduction by Michael Gunton. This detailed map covers the Portsea area of Portsmouth, plus a small portion of Gosport. Coverage on the Portsmouth side is around Queen Street with tightly packed rows of terraced streets to either side. In Gosport coverage is of the area around Clarence Square. Please note that naval areas such as the dockyard are left blank for security reasons. Features include railway with Portsmouth Harbour station, The Hard, Station Hospital, Mill Dam Barracks, St George's church, Anglesey Barracks, tramways, Holy Trinity church, St Matthew's church Gosport, Coldharbour Mud, Burrow Island. On the reverse we include street directory entries for Aylward Street, Cumberland Street, Hanover Street, The Hard, Orange Street, Ordnance Row, Quay Lane, Queen Street, St George's Square, Unicorn Street.

Reduced from the original Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map to a scale of approximately 1:4,340 (or about 15" to the mile). This edition published by Alan Godfrey Maps, Leadgate, Consett