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Hinton 1765
FA2000.61:- 
Strip map, road map, uncoloured engraving, roads or parts of roads from Shrewsbury to Welshpool, London to Wells and St Edmunds Bury, and London to Weymouth, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, published in the Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, by John Hinton, Kings Arms, St Paul's Churchyard, London, 1765-73.
Pl.21 Shrewsbury to Welshpool - from Shrewsbury, Shropshire; to Welshpool, Powys.
Pl.21 London to Wells and St Edmunds - from Newmarket, Cambridgeshire; across a corner of Suffolk; to Swaffham and Wells, Norfolk; AND from Newmarket, Cambridgeshire; to Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Pl.21 London to Weymouth - from Basingstoke, to Sutton Scotney and Stockbridge, Hampshire; then Downton, Wiltshire; to Cranborne, Blandford and Dorchester, then Weymouth, Dorset.
map feature:-  not coloured & title cartouche & plain cartouche & north point & coast form lines & rivers & relief & hillocks & woods & county & settlements & roads & road distances & distances from London & wells (sweep wells) & mills & windmills
inscription:-  printed -on- title cartouche Continuation / of the ROAD from / SHREWSBURY / to / WELSHPOOL, / in North Wales / Commencg. at Shrewsbury in Pl.20
inscription:-  printed -on- title cartouche A SURVEY of the ROADS / from / LONDON to WELLS / in Norfolk, / and ST. EDMUNDS BURY / in Suffolk / Both Commencing at Newmarket in / Plate 18.
inscription:-  printed -on- title cartouche A SURVEY of the ROAD from / LONDON to WEYMOUTH / Commencing at Basingstoke in Pl.10 & from thence to / .... -- with table of distances
dimension:-  wxh, sheet = 40x32cm
wxh, map = 350x296mm
scale = 1 to 140000 ? (guess)

  Map Group -- Hinton 1765 -- with Research Notes

town names:- 
Hampshire Hampshire
map name modern name
Stockbridge Stockbridge

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MN: 4.10.2001