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Map Collection
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Ogilby 1675
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FA1991.5:-
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Strip map, uncoloured copper plate engraving, road map, part of The Road From
London to the Lands End, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, from the road book,
Britannia, published by John Ogilby, White Friars, London, 1675.
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Pl.25, from the centre of London, through Knightsbridge, Kensington,
Hammersmith, Brentford, Hounslow, Staines, Middlesex, through Egham, Bagshot,
Blackwater, Surrey, through Hartley Wintney, Basingstoke, Whitchurch, to
Andover, Hampshire.
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inscription:- |
printed -on- title cartouche
The Road from LONDON to the LANDS END / Commencing at the Standard in
Cornhill / and Extending to Senan in Cornwall. / By IOHN OGILBY Esqr. his
Maties. Cosmographer
-- figures, dressed and undressed |
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map feature:-
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not coloured & title cartouche & roads & compass rose & coat of
arms (royal) & settlements & streets & relief & hillocks &
parks & windmills & road distances |
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dimension:- |
= 44.5x32.5cm |
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scale = 1 to 63360 ? (nominal) |
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Map Group -- Ogilby 1675 -- with Research Notes
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| MN: 26.9.2001 |