[Greenwich to Erith]

Single sheet. engraving. Hand coloured in outline, along boundaries. Scale: 1:31,680. The border is graduated for latitude and longitude from the prime meridian of London (not Greenwich). Sandbanks are marked and soundings are given in fathoms. The Thames is decorated with ships. The chart also shows a great deal of land topographical and ownership detail. A sheet from: A topographical map of the County of Kent in twenty five sheets on a scale of two inches to a mile. From an actual survey in which are expressed all the roads, lanes churches, towns, villages, noblemen and gentlemens seats, Roman roads, hills, rivers, woods, cottages and every thing remarkable in the country; together with the division of the lathes and their subdivision into hundreds. By Jn Andrews, Andw Dury and William Herbert.

Object Details

ID: G218:8/22C
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Dury and Herbert; Andrews, John
Places: River Thames
Date made: 1769
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Printed area 46 x 52cm, on sheet 64.5 x 72cm.