XML presented as TXT. Information valid at 2004. HANTSMAP.htm environment & maps transport & road website CD ROM & map & descriptive text Old Hampshire Mapped HantsMap Website, Old Hampshire Mapped, presenting early printed maps of Hampshire, from 1575 to mid 19th century, authored by Jean and Martin Norgate, 1996-2001. The website deals with county maps, road strip maps, gazetteers, itineraries, etc of Hampshire and the Christchurch area, Dorset, which was in Hampshire, excluding the Isle of Wight, from the mid 16th to mid 19th centuries. It has topic notes on:- compass rose, scale line, old english mile, prime meridian, coast line, coastal defence and castles, rivers and bridges, relief, beacons, woods and forests, parks, county and hundreds, settlements and place names, roads, etc. The maps in the site, so far, include those by:- Christopher Saxton engraved by Leonard Terwoort, 1575; John Norden, 1595, as published by Henry Overton, about 1670; Peter Keer, 1620; John Norden engraved by William Hole, 1607; John Speed, 1611; Michael Drayton, 1613, with part of the poem Polyolbion; Mathew Simmons, 1643, with a table of distances; John Blaeu 1645; John Ogilby, 1675, strip maps from Britannia, with itineraries; Robert Morden, 1695; John Senex, 1719-57, strip maps; Emanuel Bowen, 1720s-50s, strip maps from Britannia Depicta; Thomas Badeslade, 1742; George Bickham, 1750, perspective map; Thomas Kitchin, 1751, small map; Isaac Taylor 1759; Thomas Kitchin, 1767, strip maps in Kitchin's Post Chaise Companion; Daniel Paterson, 1785-93, strip maps in Paterson's British Itinerary; John Harrison, 1788; Thomas Milne, 1791; Aristide Perrot, 1823; C and J Greenwood, 1826. The site also includes geographical descriptions ands itineraries:- John Leland, 1535-43; William Camden's Britannia translated by Philemon Holland, 1610; Thomas Cox, about 1738, Magna Britannia, Antiqua et Nova; Richard Brookes, 1815 16th edition, Brookes's General Gazetteer; John Cary, 1815 6th edition, Cary's New Itinerary; William Cobbett, 1830, Rural Rides. The items included in the site are mostly in the Map Collection of Hampshire County Council Museums Service, Chilcomb House, Chilcomb Lane, Winchester, Hampshire. Individual records are made of some pages to any of which it is 'safe' to jump (all at '_top'; none are frames in a frameset). author: Norgate, Jean M
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Longsleddale & Cumbria (LA8 9BE) Low Sadgill 1996=2004 The site is hand written in word processor files having groups of web pages in single files. Blocks of data are downloaded from the Old Hampshire Gazetteer database. The source files are split into separate pages using HTMLSPL.exe utility with insert files MAPINS.txt and MAPFINS.txt. Pages are ascii text using HTML version 4 with no plugins, and only one minor use of javascript; framesets are used. Images are in .jpg and .gif formats. Backup copies of the source files are kept as ascii text files on diskette. Backup of the whole site is kept on CD ROM which is to ISO9660 standard using DOS 8.3 style filenames and has been tested on Windows, Macintosh, and unix platforms.
Hampshire Christchurch area & Dorset SZ0389 & SU0366 & SU8966 & SZ8989 British NGR clockwise from bottom left 1 58 W & 1 43 W & 50 42 N & 51 24 N latitude and longitude approximate bounds of the area studied 1575=1826 map & road map & strip map & county map & descriptive text & itinerary compass rose & scale line & old english mile & prime meridian & coast line & coastal defence & castles & rivers & bridges & relief & beacons & forests & parks & county & hundreds & settlements & place names & roads map maker: Saxton, Christopher engraver: Terwoort, Leonard 1575 map map maker: Norden, John publisher: Overton, Henry 1595 & 1670 map map maker: Keer, Peter 1620 map map maker: Norden, John engraver: Hole, William 1607 map map maker: Speed, John 1611 map map maker: Drayton, Michael 1613 map & poem & Polyolbion map maker: Simmons, Matthew 1643 map & thumbnail map & table of distances map maker: Blaeu, John 1645 map map maker: Ogilby, John 1675 road map & strip map & map & Britannia & descriptive text & itinerary map maker: Morden, Robert 1695 map map maker: Senex, John 1719=1757 road map & strip map & map & descriptive text map maker: Bowen, Emanuel 1720=1759 (?) road map & strip map & map & descriptive text & Britannia Depicta map maker: Badeslade, Thomas 1742 map map maker: Bickham, George 1750 map & perspective map map maker: Kitchin, Thomas 1751 map map maker: Taylor, Isaac 1759 map map maker: Kitchin, Thomas 1767 road book & Kitchin's Post Chaise Companion & road map & strip map & map map maker: Paterson, Daniel 1785=1793 road book & Paterson's British Itinerary & road map & strip map & map & itinerary & descriptive text map maker: Harrison, John 1788 map map maker: Milne, Thomas 1791 map map maker: Perrot, Aristide M 1823 map map maker: Greenwood, C and J 1826 map author: Leland, John 1535=1543 descriptive text & itinerary author: Camden, William translator: Holland, Philemon 1610 geography & Britannia & descriptive text & itinerary author: Cox, Thomas 1738 (?) geography & descriptive text & Magna Britannia, Antiqua et Nova author: Brookes, Richard 1815 (16th edition) descriptive text & gazetteer & Brookes's General Gazetteer author: Cary, John 1815 (6th edition) descriptive text & road book & itinerary & Cary's New Itinerary author: Cobbett, William 1830 descriptive text & itinerary & Rural Rides museum: Hampshire CC Museum Service Chilcomb Lane & Winchester & Hampshire Chilcomb House collection & Map Collection 16th century & 17th century, early & 17th century, late & 18th century, early & 18th century, late & 19th century, early item made inhouse : pages: 7500 (??) : memory: 500 Mbytes (??) www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/hantsmap/ & JandMN (master copy) & Portsmouth University (backup in Geography Department with Dominic Fontana): 2004 hantsmap MN: 6.5.2004 website record