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FA1999.55:-
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Strip map, road map, hand coloured engraving, scale about 2-2.5 miles to 1
inch, The Road from London to Barnstable, Devon, segment from Andover, Hampshire
to Bridgewater, Somerset from a road book by John Senex, London, 1719.
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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.32 Andover, Hampshire to Wiltshire border; via Amesbury, Shrewton,
Warminster, Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire; via Wincanton, Bruton, to Bridgewater,
Somerset.
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Note; the plate number is at bottom right, the map is single sided.
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inscription:- |
printed -on- title cartouche
The ROAD from LONDON to BARNSTABLE / in DEVONSHIRE. / Commencing in Andover
in the Land's End Road, / ....
-- title and table of distances |
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inscription:- |
printed -on- upper centre
I Senex sculpt
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map feature:-
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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 &
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 Wiltshire') |
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dimension:- |
wxh, plate = 215x165mm |
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scale = 1 to 150000 ? (approx) |
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Map Group -- Senex 1719 -- 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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| MN: 4.10.2001 |
