Map Collection

Cooper 1808
ACM1934.74.2:- 
Map, hand coloured engraving, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight, scale about 15 miles to 1 inch, drawn and engraved by H Cooper, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.
Plate XIV from A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom by Benjamin Pitts Capper.
map feature:-  hand coloured & north point (fleur de lys) & scale line & sea shaded & coast shaded & rivers & county & hundreds & table of hundreds (keyed by numbers) & settlements & roads & canals
inscription:-  printed -on- HAMPSHIRE
inscription:-  printed -on- bottom centre Published Jany. 1, 1808, by R. Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London. / Cooper delt. et sculp.
scale line:-  10 miles = 17.1 mm
dimension:-  wxh, sheet = 12.5x21.5cm
wxh, map (excluding table at foot) = 102x134mm
scale = 1 to 940000 ? (1 to 941137 from scale line assuming modern mile)

  Map Group -- Cooper 1808 -- with Research Notes

town names:- 
Hampshire Hampshire
map name modern name
Alton Alton
Andover Andover
Basingstoke Basingstoke
Bishops Waltham Bishops Waltham
Christ Church Christchurch
Fareham Fareham
Fordingbridge Fordingbridge
Gosport Gosport
Havant Havant
Kingsclere Kingsclere
Lymington Lymington
New Alresford Alresford
Odiham Odiham
Petersfield Petersfield
Portsmouth Portsmouth
Ringwood Ringwood
Romsey Romsey
Southampton Southampton
Stockbridge Stockbridge
Whitchurch Whitchurch
Winchester Winchester

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MN: 4.10.2001