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FA1997.7:-
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Strip map, hand coloured 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- hand coloured & 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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title cartouche & roads & road distances & compass rose & coat
of arms (royal) & settlements & streets & relief & hillocks
& trees & woods & parks & rivers & windmills |
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dimension:- |
wxh, sheet = 51x42.5cm |
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wxh, plate = 452x330mm |
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wxh, map = 445x323mm |
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scale = 1 to 63360 ? (nominal) |
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reference:- |
Ogilby, John: 1675: Britannia - A Geographical and Historical Description of the
Principal Roads thereof |
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Map Group -- Ogilby 1675 -- with Research Notes
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town names:-
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Hampshire
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Hampshire
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map name
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modern name
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Andover
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Andover
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Basingstoke
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Basingstoke
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Whitchurch
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Whitchurch
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| MN: 4.10.2001 |
