Map Collection

FA1998.184:- 
Map, hand drawn copy, Ichnographia Oppidi Aultonia, Plan of Alton, Hampshire, scale about 45 inches to 1 mile, originally drawn by IS, 1666.
A reference table lists street names, inns and other buildings; the Entry from Domesday Book for Alton, in Latin and English is written in a panel on the right.
map feature:-  compass rose (cardinal, half cardinal, and false points) & up is NW (approx) & scale line & coat of arms & settlements & roads & streets & inns & rivers
inscription:-  -on- ICHNOGRAPHIA / OPPIDI AULTONIA / IN COMITATU / SOUTHAMPTONIE / DELINEATA / ANNO SALUTIS / NOSTRE / MDCLXVI / PERME / I S
scale line:-  30 perches = 103.5 mm
dimension:-  scale = 1 to 1500 ? (1 to 1458 from scale line)

MN: 8.6.1998