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FA1997.100:-
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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 the Lands-End, Cornwall, segment from London to
Andover, Hampshire, and on the other side the last segment of the road from
London to Holyhead, Anglesey, 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.25 London; Brentford, and Staines, Middlesex; Bagshot, Surrey; Hartley Row,
Basingstoke, Whitchurch, and Andover, Hampshire.
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Pl.24 Denbigh, and Conway, Denbighshire; Beaumaris, and Holyhead, Anglesey.
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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 the LANDS-END / IN CORNWALL. Actually Surveyed by a
Wheel ...
-- title and table of distances |
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inscription:- |
printed -on- bottom right
I Senex sculpt.
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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) & gibbets & inns
(mention of Skippord's Inn at 52'2 on pl.25) & 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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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 |
