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	Old Hampshire Mapped

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Hampshire distances	To help work out the scale of old maps of a county it is useful to have, ready to hand, some known distances. These figures were quickly calculated for Hampshire, it would be easy to do the same for any county. Remember that these are crow flight distances, not road distances. The first groups of figures are for a few easily found places spread over the county.
town to town	`place NGR Winchester SU 483 303 Alton SU 710 396 Andover SU 365 450 Southampton SU 424 128 place-place distance, kilometres (miles, roughly) Winchester-Alton 24.5 (15) Winchester-Andover 18.9 (12) Winchester-Southampton 18.5 (12) Alton-Andover 34.9 (22) Alton-Southampton 39.2 (25) Andover-Southampton 32.7 (20)`
distances on map	place- Win- Win- Win- Alt- Alt- And- -place -Alt -And -Ston -And -Ston -Ston (distance on map, millimetres; rounded off to nearest millimetre OR to three significant figures) scale 1 to (ins to 1m) (m to 1in) 3168000 (50) 8 6 6 11 12 10 1584000 (25) 15 12 12 22 25 21 1520640 (24) 16 12 12 23 26 22 1267200 (20) 19 15 15 28 31 26 1140480 (18) 21 17 16 31 34 29 1000000 25 19 19 35 39 33 950400 (15) 26 20 19 37 41 34 760320 (12) 32 25 24 46 52 43 633600 (10) 39 30 29 55 62 52 887040 (8) 28 21 21 39 44 37 380160 (6) 64 50 49 92 103 86 316800 (5) 77 60 58 110 124 103 (.25) 253440 (4) 97 75 73 138 155 129 190080 (3) 129 99 97 184 206 172 (.5) 126720 (2) 193 149 146 275 309 258 100000 245 189 185 349 392 327 (1) 63360 (1) 387 298 292 551 619 516 50000 490 378 370 698 784 654 (2) 31680 (.5) (2.5) 25344 967 746 730 1377 1547 1290 25000 980 756 740 1396 1568 1308 (6) 10560 2320 1790 1752 3305 3712 3097 10000 2450 1890 1850 3490 3920 3270 (25) 2534.4 9667 7457 7300 13771 15467 12902 2500 9800 7560 7400 13960 15680 13080 (50) 1267.2 19334 14915 14599 27541 30934 25805 1250 19600 15120 14800 27920 31360 26160 (60) 1056 23201 17898 17519 33049 37121 30966 500 49000 37800 37000 69800 78400 65400
triangular table	A more comprehensive group of towns is those chosen for the Old Hampshire Mapped project (HANTSMAP). The location of the town is the location of its church. This is pretty uncertain in some instances, eg Eastleigh, and Aldershot. town code ngr Aldershot ALD SU869499 Alton ALT SU718393 Andover AND SU365458 Basingstoke BSK SU634527 Beaulieu BEA SU386023 Bishops Waltham BWM SU556177 Christchurch CHR SZ159925 Eastleigh ESL SU456193 Fareham FRH SU575061 Fordingbridge FDB SU150145 Gosport GOS SZ621996 Havant HVN SU717062 Kingsclere KCL SU525586 Lymington LMG SZ322954 New Alresford ALR SU588326 Odiham ODH SU740509 Overton OVT SU514500 Petersfield PTF SU744235 Portsmouth POR SZ632993 Ringwood RGW SU149054 Romsey ROM SU351212 Southampton SOT SU417122 Stockbridge STB SU355351 Whitchurch WHC SU460478 Winchester WIN SU478293 Program DIAGONAL.exe was used to write a diagonal table of distances from this data; see progam notes, DIAGONAL.rul. The table does not fit comfortably on a page! crow flight distances, Km ALD ALT AND BSK BEA BWM CHR ESL FRH Winchester (WIN) 44 26 20 28 29 14 49 10 25 Whitchurch (WHC) 41 27 10 18 46 32 63 29 43 Stockbridge (STB) 53 37 11 33 33 27 47 19 36 Southampton (SOT) 59 41 34 46 10 15 32 8 17 Romsey (ROM) 59 41 25 42 19 21 35 11 27 Ringwood (RGW) 85 66 46 68 24 43 13 34 43 Portsmouth (POR) 56 41 54 53 25 20 48 27 9 Petersfield (PTF) 29 16 44 31 42 20 66 29 24 Overton (OVT) 36 23 15 12 49 33 68 31 44 Odiham (ODH) 13 12 38 11 60 38 82 42 48 New Alresford (ALR) 33 15 26 21 36 15 59 19 27 Lymington (LMG) 77 59 51 65 9 32 17 27 27 Kingsclere (KCL) 35 27 20 12 58 41 76 40 53 Havant (HVN) 46 33 53 47 33 20 57 29 14 Gosport (GOS) 56 41 53 53 24 19 47 26 8 Fordingbridge (FDB) 80 62 38 62 27 41 22 31 43 ALD ALT AND BSK BEA BWM CHR ESL FRH Fareham (FRH) 53 36 45 47 19 12 44 18 Eastleigh (ESL) 51 33 28 38 18 10 40 Christchurch (CHR) 91 73 57 77 25 47 Bishops Waltham (BWM) 45 27 34 36 23 Beaulieu (BEA) 68 50 44 56 Basingstoke (BSK) 24 16 28 Andover (AND) 51 36 Alton (ALT) 18 crow flight distances, Km FDB GOS HVN KCL LMG ALR ODH OVT PTF POR RGW ROM SOT STB WHC WIN 36 33 33 30 37 11 34 21 27 34 41 15 18 14 19 WHC 45 51 49 13 54 20 28 6 37 51 53 29 36 16 STB 29 44 46 29 40 23 42 22 41 45 36 14 24 SOT 27 24 31 48 19 27 50 39 35 25 28 11 ROM 21 35 40 41 26 26 49 33 39 36 26 RGW 9 48 57 65 20 52 75 58 62 49 POR 51 1 11 60 31 34 53 52 27 PTF 60 27 18 41 51 18 27 35 OVT 51 52 48 9 58 19 23 ODH 69 53 45 23 69 24 ALR 47 33 29 27 46 LMG 26 30 41 66 KCL 58 60 56 HVN 57 12 GOS 49
Winchester to ...	Distances from Winchester to places just outwith the county. `Winchester SU483303 Km miles to Poole SZ013908 61.4 38.2 Christchurch SZ160925 49.7 30.9 Salisbury SU142295 34.1 21.2 Newbury SU471671 50.2 31.2 Reading SU714734 48.9 30.4 Guildford SU998495 55.0 34.2 Chichester SU859047 45.5 28.3`
county map	The overall size of a county map is quickly measured and provides a rapid guide to the scale. These figures are for Hampshire, the county boundary is that of the 1986 revision of the Administrative Areas Diagram. The overall size is of the county, not the sheet of paper the map is printed on. left edge (Martin) SU 030 ___ right edge (Aldershot, Rushmoor) SU 886 ___ top edge (Mortimer West End) SU ___ 654 bottom edge (Milford-on-Sea) SU ___ 897 width x height 85.6 x 75.7 km scale 1 to miles/inch county wxh cm 24 6 x 5 20 7 x 6 18 8 x 7 1000000 8.5 x 7.5 15 9 x 8 950000 9 x 8 900000 9.5 x 8.5 850000 10 x 9 800000 11 x 9.5 12 11 x 10 750000 11 x 10 700000 12 x 11 650000 13 x 12 633600 10 14 x 12 600000 14 x 13 550000 16 x 14 8 17 x 15 500000 17 x 15 450000 19 x 17 400000 22 x 19 6 23 x 20 350000 25 x 22 5 27 x 24 300000 29 x 25 4 34 x 30 250000 34 x 30 200000 43 x 38 3 45 x 40 150000 57 x 51 2 68 x 60 100000 86 x 76 63360 1 135 x 119 50000 171 x 151 county wxh metres 63360 1 1.35 x 1.19 50000 1.71 x 1.51 25344 2.5 3.37 x 2.98 25000 3.42 x 3.02 10560 6 8.10 x 7.16 10000 8.56 x 7.57 2534.4 25 33.77 x 29.86

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