Map Collection

Kitchin 1767
FA1999.138.50:- 
Strip map, road map, uncoloured engraving, Road from London to Pool, Dorset, in Kitchin's Post Chaise Companion, by Thomas Kitchin, published by Robert Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, John Bowles, Cornhill, and Carington Bowles, St Paul's Church Yard, London, 1767.
Pl.50 New Alresford, via Winchester, Romsey, Ringwood, Hampshire; then Knaston, to Poole, Dorset; and from Poole via Christchurch; to Lymington, Hampshire; and from Southampton to Winchester, Hampshire.
map feature:-  not coloured & title cartouche & table of distances & north point & up is destination & coast shaded & county & settlements & roads & rivers & distances from London & relief & hillocks & woods & parks
inscription:-  printed -on- title cartouche The ROAD from LONDON to POOL in DORSETSHIRE / Commencing at Alresford in the Southampton Road Pl.55 / ... / With a branch from Pool to Lymington / ... / as also from Southampton to Winchester .... -- table of distances

  Map Group -- Kitchin 1767 -- with Research Notes

town names:- 
Hamp Shire Hampshire
map name modern name
Alresford Alresford
Winchester Winchester
Rumsey Romsey
Ringwood Ringwood
Christ Church Christchurch
Lemington Lymington
Southampton Southampton

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MN: 25.2.2002