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FA1999.22:-
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Strip map, road map, uncoloured engraving, scale about 2-2.5 miles to 1 inch,
parts of the Road from London to Wells and St Edmundsbury and the Road from
London to Weymouth, from a road book by John Senex, 1719, edition printed for
John Bowles and Son, The Black Horse, Cornhill, London, after 1757.
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From Roads through England Delineated; ... Ogilby's survey revised, improved and
reduced to a size portable for the pocket.
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Pl.56 from Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, across Suffolk; via Swaffham, Fakenham,
Walsingham to Wells, Norfolk; and from Newmarket to Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
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Pl.57 from Basingstoke via Stockbridge, Hampshire; via Downton, Wiltshire; via
Cranborne, Blandford, Dorchester, to Weymouth, Dorset.
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Note - the plate number is at top left and right, the map is two sided.
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map feature:-
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not coloured & 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') |
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inscription:- |
printed -on- title cartouche
The ROADS from LONDON to / WELLS in NORFOLK and / ST. EDMUNDSBURY in SUFFOLK
/ The First commencing at Newmarket in the Norwich Road ... / The second
commencing at the same Place ....
-- title and table of distances |
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inscription:- |
printed -on- title cartouche
THE ROAD from LONDON to WEYMOUTH in / DORSETSHIRE / Containing from London
to Basingstoke in the Road / to the LANDS-END 48 Miles Plate 25 / and from
thence to ....
-- title and table of distances |
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dimension:- |
wxh, sheet = 23.5x18cm |
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scale = 1 to 150000 ? (approx) |
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Map Group -- Senex 1757 -- with Research Notes
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town names:-
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Hampshire
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Hampshire
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map name
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modern name
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Basingstoke
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Basingstoke
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Stockbridg
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Stockbridge
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| MN: 4.10.2001 |
