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FA1998.173:-
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Strip map, hand coloured copper plate engraving, road map, part of The Road
from Oxford to Salisbury, Wiltshire, 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.83 from Oxford, via Abingdon, Oxfordshire; via Great Shelford, Hungerford,
Berkshire; then via North Tidworth, Wiltshire, through a corner of Hampshire, to
Salisbury, Wiltshire; then Cranborne, Wimborne Minster, to Poole, Dorset.
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map feature:-
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hand coloured & title cartouche & roads & road distances & coast
shaded & rivers & compass rose & coat of arms (royal) &
settlements & streets & woods & trees & relief & hillocks
& county & windmills |
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inscription:- |
printed -on- title cartouche
The Road from OXFORD to SALISBURY Com~. WILTS / Continued to POOL Com~.
DORSET. / By JOHN OGILBY Esqr. His Maties. Cosmographer. / ...
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dimension:- |
wxh, sheet = 53x42cm |
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wxh, plate = 463x362mm |
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wxh, map = 459x358mm |
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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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| MN: 4.10.2001 |
