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FA1997.99:-
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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 Portsmouth, Hampshire, from a road book published
by John Senex, The Globe, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, London, 1719.
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From An Actual Survey of all the Principal Roads of England and Wales; ... with
directions to the curious traveller what is worth observing throughout his
journey, described in the most easy and intelligible manner; improved, corrected
and made portable from the maps published by John Ogilby.
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Pl.30 London; Wandsworth, Kingston on Thames, Cobham, Guildford, and Godalming,
Surrey; Liphook in Liphook and Liss, Petersfield, Horndean, Cosham, and
Portsmouth, Hampshire.
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Note; the plate number is at bottom right, the map is single sided.
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inscription:- |
printed -on- title cartouche
The ROAD from LONDON to PORTSMOUTH / in HAMPSHIRE ...
-- 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) & fortifications
(polygonal artillery fort at bridge by Cosham to Portsea Island) & county
(dotted line boundary and comment as 'enter Hampshire') |
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dimension:- |
wxh, plate = 202x159mm |
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scale = 1 to 150000 ? (estimated at 1 to 150876) |
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Map Group -- Senex 1719 -- 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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Petersfield
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Petersfield
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Portsmouth
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Portsmouth
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| MN: 4.10.2001 |
