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FA1998.2:-
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Strip map, uncoloured engraving, road map for part of The Road From Oxford to
Chichester, 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.81 from Oxford, Oxfordshire, crosses straightaway into Berkshire, though
Abbingdon and Newbury, into Hampshire through Kingsclere, Basingstoke, Alton,
and Petersfield, and into West Sussex, ending in Chichester.
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inscription:- |
printed -on- not coloured & title cartouche
The Road From / OXFORD to CHICHESTER. / By IOHN OGILBY Esqr. His Maties.
Cosmographer.
-- country scene, herding and milking cows |
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map feature:-
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not coloured & title cartouche & roads & rivers & compass rose
& coat of arms (royal) & settlements & streets & woods &
relief & hillocks & county & beacons & water mills & bridges
& road distances |
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dimension:- |
wxh, sheet = 45.5x38.5cm |
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wxh, plate = 432x360mm (?) |
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wxh, map = 426x350mm |
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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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Allton
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Alton
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Basingstoke
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Basingstoke
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Kingscler
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Kingsclere
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Petersfield
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Petersfield
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| MN: 4.10.2001 |
