|
FA1999.21:-
|
Strip map, road map, uncoloured engraving, scale about 2-2.5 miles to 1 inch,
parts of the Road from Oxford to Coventry and Derby and the Road from Oxford to
Salisbury, from a road book by John Senex, 1719, edition printed for John Bowles
and Son, The Black Horse, Cornhill, London, after 1757.
|
|
From Roads through England Delineated; ... Ogilby's survey revised, improved and
reduced to a size portable for the pocket.
|
|
Pl.90 from Oxford via Dedington to Banbury, Oxfordshire; thro Warwickshire via
Coventry; thro Leicestershire via Ashby de la Zouche; to Derby, Derbyshire.
|
|
Pl.91 from Oxford, via Abingdon, Oxfordshire; via Hungerford, Berkshire, thro
Wiltshire; across a corner of Hampshire near Tidworth; via Salisbury, Wiltshire;
Cranborne, Wimborn Minster to Poole, Dorset.
|
|
Note - the plate number is at top left and right, the map is double sided.
|
|
inscription:- |
printed -on- not coloured & title cartouche
The Road from OXFORD to COVENTRY and DERBY. / Containing from Oxford to
....
-- title and table of distances |
|
inscription:- |
printed -on- title cartouche
The Road from OXFORD to SALISBURY, & continued / to Pool in DORSET-SHIRE. /
Containing from Oxford to....
-- title and table of distances |
|
map feature:-
|
title cartouche (plain box, sides curved to fit by scrolls of map) & north
point (simple cross marked with fleur de lys for N and cross for E) & road
distances (miles from Cornhill, London, dot in road, figure beside) & table
of distances & roads (continuous or dotted lines probably indicate fenced or
unfenced?) & settlements (differences in size and typeface of name are
indications of size) & streets (layout in some towns) & rivers &
mills & water mills & windmills & parks & woods & forests
& relief & hillocks (all one way up, ie not using a convention for up
and down) & county (dotted line boundary and comment as 'enter
Hampshire') |
|
dimension:- |
wxh, sheet = 23.5x18cm |
|
scale = 1 to 150000 ? (approx) |
 |
|
|
Map Group -- Senex 1757 -- with Research Notes
|
|
|
| top of page |
| MN: 4.10.2001 |
