Map Collection

Greenwood 1826
FA1999.83:- 
Map, hand coloured steel plate engraving, Map of the County of Southampton, ie Hampshire, with the Isle of Wight, scale about 1 miles to 1 inch, by C and J Greenwood and Nathaniel L Kentish, published by Greenwood, Pringle and Co, Regent Street, Pall Mall, London, 1826.
The map has a vignette view of Winchester Cathedral.
The slip case is an elegant mock tooled leather bound book.
map feature:-  hand coloured & sectioned for folding & mounted & folded & slip case & compass rose & scale line & lat and long scales & coast form lines & rivers & relief & hill hachuring & woods & forests & trees & parks & county & hundreds & parishes & settlements & roads & turnpike roads & canals & mills & turnpike gates & table of symbols & vignettes
inscription:-  -on- top left MAP / OF / the COUNTY of / SOUTHAMPTON / from an Actual Survey / Made in the Years 1825 & 1826. / BY C. & J. GREENWOOD, / AND N. L. KENTISH. / Most Respectfully Dedicated / TO THE / Nobility, Clergy & Gentry / OF / HAMPSHIRE, / BY THE PROPRIETORS / GREENWOOD, PRINGLE & Co. / Regent St. Pall Mall / London. / PUBLISHED / JUNE 15th. / 1826. -- title
inscription:-  embossed -on- slip case spine GREENWOOD'S / MAP OF / HAMPSHIRE
scale line:-  5 miles = 123.8 mm
dimension:-  scale = 1 to 65000 ? (1 to 64998 from scale line assuming modern mile)

reference:-  Greenwood, Charles and James: 1834: Atlas of Counties of England
  Map Group -- Greenwood 1826 -- with Research Notes

MN: 7.1.2002