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FA1997.98:-
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Strip map, road map, hand coloured engraving, scale about 2-2.5 miles to 1
inch, The Road from London to Southampton, segment from Bagshot, Surrey to
Southampton, Hampshire and from there to Salisbury, Wiltshire, and on the other
side The Road from Exeter to Truro in Cornwall, from a road book by John Senex,
1719, edition printed for John Bowles and Son, The Black Horse, Cornhill,
London, after 1757.
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From Roads through England Delineated; ... Ogilby's survey revised, improved and
reduced to a size portable for the pocket.
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Pl.54 Bagshot, and Farnham, Surrey; Alton, New Alresford, Twyford, and
Southampton, Hampshire then Romsey, Hampshire; Whiteparish, and Salisbury,
Wiltshire.
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Pl.55 Exeter, and Tavistock, Devon; Liskeard, Lostwithiel, St Austel, and Truro,
Cornwall.
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Note; the plate number is at top left and right, the map is double sided.
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inscription:- |
printed -on- title cartouche
The ROAD from LONDON to SOUTHAMPTON / continued to SALISBURY. / Commencing
at Bagshot in the Road to the Lands-End Pl.25. ...
-- title and table of distances |
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inscription:- |
printed -on- title cartouche
The Road from EXETER to TRURO in CORNWALL / being a continuation of the Road
from LONDON through / Exeter Plate 27 to Truro. ...
-- title and table of distances |
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map feature:-
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title cartouche (plain box, sides curved to fit by scrolls of map) & north
point (simple cross marked with fleur de lys for N and cross for E) & road
distances (miles from Cornhill, London, dot in road, figure beside) & table
of distances & roads (continuous or dotted lines probably indicate fenced or
unfenced?) & settlements (differences in size and typeface of name are
indications of size) & streets (layout in some towns) & rivers &
windmills & parks & woods & forests & relief & hillocks (all
one way up, ie not using a convention for up and down) & county (dotted line
boundary and comment as 'enter Hampshire') |
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dimension:- |
wxh, plate = 212x156mm |
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scale = 1 to 150000 ? (approx) |
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Map Group -- Senex 1757 -- 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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Alton
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Alton
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Alresford
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Alresford
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Rumsey
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Romsey
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Southampton
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Southampton
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| MN: 4.10.2001 |
