Map Collection

Senex 1757

FA2000.9:-	Strip map, road map, hand coloured engraving, scale about 2-2.5 miles to 1 inch, The Road from Oxford to Chichester, with a segment in Hampshire, and The Road from Oxford to Cambridge, by John Senex, 1719, edition printed for John Bowles and Son, The Black Horse, Cornhill, London, after 1757.
	From Roads through England Delineated; ... Ogilby's survey revised, improved and reduced to a size portable for the pocket.
	Pl.89 from Oxford, via Abingdon, Oxfordshire; via East Ilsley, Berkshire; then Kingsclere, Basingstoke, Alton, Petersfield, Hampshire; to Chichester, East Sussex.
	Pl.88 from Oxford to Burcester, Oxfordshire; via Buckingham, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire; then Bedford, Bedfordshire; to Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
	Note - the plate number is at top left and right, the map is double sided.
inscription:-	printed -on- title cartouche The Road from OXFORD to CHICHESTER. / .... -- title and table of distances
inscription:-	printed -on- title cartouche The Road from OXFORD to CAMBRIDGE. / .... -- title and table of distances
map feature:-	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 Oxford, 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 & ferries & 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 Hampshire')
dimension:-	wxh, plate = 21.5x16cm (approx)
	scale = 1 to 150000 ? (approx)
	Map Group -- Senex 1757 -- with Research Notes
town names:-	Hampshire Hampshire map name modern name Alton Alton Basingstoke Basingstoke Kingscleer Kingsclere Petersfield Petersfield
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	MN: 4.10.2001

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