Map Collection

Moule 1836
FA1999.85:- 
Map, hand coloured engraving, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, about 1836, engraved by I Dower, published in Moules English Counties, by Thomas Moule, about 1850.
With coats of arms for local authorities in Southampton, Southwick, Winchester, Portsmouth, Petersfield; coat of arms of the Duke of Wellington; vignette scene of Southampton.
This edition of the map has the London and South Western Railway, LSWR, entering the county by Farnborough, Rushmoor, via Basingstoke, Winchester to Southampton.
map feature:-  not coloured & interlace border & title cartouche (very plain box) & north point (cardinal directions, fleur de lys for north) & scale line (10 miles chequered) & sea shaded & coast shaded & rivers & relief (some) & hill hachuring & trees & forests (few marked) & parks & county & hundreds & table of hundreds (keyed by numbers) & settlements & roads (graded by size) & canals & railways
inscription:-  printed -on- title cartouche HAMPSHIRE
inscription:-  printed -on- top left VIRTUTIS FORTUNA COMES / DUKE OF WELLINGTON -- coat of arms & motto
inscription:-  printed -on- SOUTHAMPTON -- coat of arms
inscription:-  printed -on- SOUTHWICK -- coat of arms
inscription:-  printed -on- WINCHESTER -- coat of arms
inscription:-  printed -on- PORTSMOUTH -- coat of arms
inscription:-  printed -on- PETERSFIELD -- coat of arms
scale line:-  10 miles = 30.4 mm
dimension:-  wxh, sheet (badly trimmed) = 26.5x21cm
wxh, map = 259x196mm
scale = 1 to 530000 ? (1 to 529389 from scale line assuming modern mile)
scale = 1 to 520000 ? (from town positions using DISTAB.exe)

  Map Group -- Moule 1836 -- with Research Notes

town names:- 
Hampshire Hampshire
map name modern name
Alton Alton
Andover Andover
Basingstoke Basingstoke
Bishops Waltham Bishops Waltham
Christ Church Christchurch
Fareham Fareham
Fordingbridge Fordingbridge
Gosport Gosport
Havant Havant
Kingsclere Kingsclere
Lymington Lymington
New Alresford Alresford
Odiham Odiham
Petersfield Petersfield
Portsmouth Portsmouth
Ringwood Ringwood
Romsey Romsey
Southampton Southampton
Stockbridge Stockbridge
Whitchurch Whitchurch
Winchester Winchester

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MN: 4.10.2001