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Map, uncoloured engraving, Mapp of Hantshire ie Hampshire, scale about 7.5
miles to 1 inch, by Richard Blome, 1681, engraved by Richard Palmer; edition
published in England Exactly Described, by Thomas Taylor, Golden Lion, Fleet
Street, 1715.
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Plate number 16, engraved top left and right.
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This is one of the earliest maps of Hampshire to show roads; a selection of
those published by John Ogilby, 1675.
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The scale line is very clearly wrong! its '4 miles' is nearer 9.5; the scale of
the map is better estimated from distances between towns. From that the scale
line looks as if it is an 8 mile scale, not 4, the map mile being an Old English
Mile = 1.21 statute miles.
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map feature:-
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title cartouche & scroll cartouche & table of hundreds & coast
shaded & compass rose & scale line & rivers & relief &
hillocks & forests & trees & parks & county & hundreds &
settlements & roads & fortifications |
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inscription:- |
printed -on- title cartouche, upper left
A MAPP of / HANTSHIRE / With its Hundreds
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inscription:- |
printed -on- lower right
R P. Sculp
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dimension:- |
scale = 1 to 490000 ? (1 to 489761 from town positions usung DISTTAB.exe) |
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Map Group -- Blome 1681 -- with Research Notes
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town names:-
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Hantshire
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Hampshire
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map name
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modern name
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Alton
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Alton
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Andover
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Andover
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Basingstoke
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Basingstoke
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Bush Waltham
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Bishops Waltham
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Christchurch
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Christchurch
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Fareham
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Fareham
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Fordingbridge
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Fordingbridge
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Gosport
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Gosport
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Havant
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Havant
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Kingescler
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Kingsclere
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Lymington
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Lymington
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Alresford
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Alresford
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Odyam
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Odiham
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Petesfeild
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Petersfield
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Portesmouth
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Portsmouth
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Ringwood
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Ringwood
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Rumsey
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Romsey
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Southampton
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Southampton
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Stokbridg
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Stockbridge
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Whitchurch
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Whitchurch
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Winchester
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Winchester
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