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FA1999.24:-
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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 Lands End, by John Senex, 1719, edition after
1757.
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Pl.26 from Andover via Middle Wallop, Hampshire; Salisbury, Wiltshire;
Shaftesbury, Dorset; Yeovil, Somserset.
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Pl.27 across corners of Devon and Dorset; via Axminster, Honiton, Exeter, to
Plymouth, Devon; into Cornwall.
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Note - the plate number is at top left and right, the map is double sided, there
are no title cartouches.
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map feature:-
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not coloured & 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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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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Andover
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Andover
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