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Map Collection
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FA1998.185:-
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Map, printed copy, Ichnographia Oppidi Aultonis, Plan of Alton, Hampshire,
scale about 20 inches to 1 mile, originally drawn by IS, 1666.
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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.
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map feature:-
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compass rose (cardinal, half cardinal, and false points, fleur de lys for N)
& up is NW (approx) & scale line & coat of arms & settlements
& roads & streets & inns & rivers |
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inscription:- |
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ICHNOGRAPHIA / OPPIDI AULTONIS / IN COMITATU / SOUTHAMPTO / NIE
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inscription:- |
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DELINEATA / ANNO SALUTIS / NOSTRE / MDCLXVI / PERI / I[ ]
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inscription:- |
printed -on- top
TO / EDWARD KNIGHT, ESQR.E. / OF CHAWTON HOUSE, / Lord of the Manor of Alton
Eastbrook, / THIS FACSIMILE COPY OF AN / ANCIENT MAP OF ALTON, / IOS BY
PERMISSION RESPECTFULLY DEDICATE, / BY HIS MOST OBEDIENT SERVANTS, / EDWARD RYDE
AND ROBERT HARROW, / 1852
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scale line:-
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40 perches = 67.7 mm |
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dimension:- |
scale = 1 to 3000 ? (1 to 2971 from scale line) |
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| MN: 8.6.1998 |