Digital Images Archive
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MPH 1/580 - Hythe
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The northern edge of this OP is quite erratic, extending north to Marchwood Green but omitting the area around Dibden church, which leads to a small blank area within the OSD. (The church itself is shown, perhaps because it was used in the local triangulation.) The continuous red line running N-S close to the western edge of the plan corresponds to another paper join on the OSD. The local triangulation has been extended across the Solent to a handful of points around Hamble. Perhaps they are intersected points because no local detail is provided and they are unnamed.
Bounds Saltern near Fawley and that at Ashlet to its south seem to exhibit a different type of saltern symbol. The saltern south of Exbury is treated similarly.
South of Calshot Castle, the name 'Stanswood Bay' has been added in pencil in a cursive hand. The name appears on the OSD (both copies) in caps, as is normal for such marine features, but it does not appear on the printed maps. It is an odd alteration; there is nothing else like it.
The area of the plan has been 'cast' as 44,117 acres, this being written in just beyond 'BEAULIEU RIVER'. Below this is a scale of chains and signatures: John Hobbs and John Spencer. Capt John Hobbs, RE, would in 1819 be placed in charge of the survey of Wigtownshire. Both men were Lieutenants by 1804 and were perhaps officer-cadets at the time of the survey.