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Map Collection
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Cockeran 1949
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FA2000.83:-
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Road book, This is Britain by Road, guide book with strip maps, and road maps
by George Philip and Son, by A E Cockeran, published by Clerke and Cockeran,
72-78 Fleet Street, London, about 1949?
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The book has a gazetteer of places with descriptions and advertisements, strip
maps of routes, descriptive text county by county, town plan street maps, road
maps of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.
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The strip maps have road distances from place to place, and use Ministry of
Transport road numbers. The Hampshire sections are:-
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pp.83-84 Lyme Regis to Margate - from Lyme Regis, through Shaftesbury, Dorset;
Salisbury, Wiltshire; Stockbridge, Winchester, Bramdean, Petersfield, Hampshire;
Midhurst, West Sussex; thence to Canterbury and Margate, Kent.
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pp.104-105 Winchester to Buxton - from Winchester, through Sutton Scotney,
Whitchurch, Hampshire; Newbury, Berkshire; Abingdon, Oxford, Oxfordshire; thence
to Buxton, Derbyshire.
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pp.109-111 Bognor Regis to Chester - from Bognor Regis, through Chichester, West
Sussex; Petersfield, Bramdean, Winchester, Andover, Hampshire; Ludgershall,
Marlborough, Wootton Bassett, Malmesbury, Wiltshire; Gloucester,
Gloucestershire; thence to Chester, Cheshire.
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The Chapter headed 'Hampshire' is just about Bournemouth, which is now in
Dorset.
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The road map pp.6-7 includes Hampshire.
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inscription:- |
printed -on- title page
This is / BRITAIN / BY ROAD / Published by / A. E. COCKERAN / CLERKE &
COCKERAN - PUBLISHERS - LTD. / 72-78 FLEET STREET, LONDON, E.C.4.
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dimension:- |
wxh, book = 14x21cm |
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Map Group -- Cockeran 1949
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| MN: 25.1.2001 |