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Moule 1836
FA1998.133:- 
Map, uncoloured engraving, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, engraved by I Dower, published in Moules English Counties, by Thomas Moule, about 1836.
With coats of arms for local authorities in Southampton, Southwick, Winchester, Portsmouth, Petersfield; coat of arms of the Duke of Wellington; vignette scene of Southampton.
This edition of the map has the London and South Western Railway, LSWR, entering the county at Farnborough, Rushmoor, via Basingstoke, Winchester to Southampton, and the branch to Fareham and Gosport.
map feature:-  not coloured & interlace border & title cartouche (very plain box) & north point (cardinal directions, fleur de lys for north) & scale line (10 miles chequered) & sea shaded & coast shaded & rivers & relief (some) & hill hachuring & trees & forests (few marked) & parks & county & hundreds & table of hundreds (keyed by numbers) & settlements & roads (graded by size) & canals & railways
inscription:-  printed -on- title cartouche HAMPSHIRE
inscription:-  printed -on- top left VIRTUTIS FORTUNA COMES / DUKE OF WELLINGTON -- coat of arms & motto
inscription:-  printed -on- SOUTHAMPTON -- coat of arms
inscription:-  printed -on- SOUTHWICK -- coat of arms
inscription:-  printed -on- WINCHESTER -- coat of arms
inscription:-  printed -on- PORTSMOUTH -- coat of arms
inscription:-  printed -on- PETERSFIELD -- coat of arms
scale line:-  10 miles = 30.5 mm
dimension:-  scale = 1 to 530000 ? (1 to 527654 from scale line assuming modern mile)

  Map Group -- Moule 1836 -- with Research Notes

MN: 7.1.2002