Map Collection

Smith 1826
FA2001.46.22:- 
Strip map, uncoloured engraving road maps, end of the Lands End road, London to Exeter etc, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, in Smith's New Pocket Companion, engraved by Pickett, published by Charles Smith and Son, 172 Strand, London, 1827.
The sheet includes 'pages' 22, 23, 24.
p.22 - last part of London to Lands End; from Truro, several routes to Lands End, Cornwall.
pp.22,23,24 - London to Exeter by Bath, Wells and Taunton; from Bath through Wells, Bridgewater, Taunton, Somerset; to Exeter, Devon.
Links - tp Plymouth see p.207, to Falmouth see p.22.
p.24 - London to Wincanton, Honiton, Exeter, Tavistock and Lands End; from Andover, Hampshire; through Amesbury and Mere, Wiltshire.
Continued by pp.25-27.
Links - London to Andover see p.18.
map feature:-  not coloured & north point & coast form lines & rivers (minimal) & relief & hill hachuring (some) & parks & county & settlements & roads & distances from London
dimension:-  wxh, sheet = 11.5x17.5cm
wxh, map = 96x155mm
scale = 1 to 570000 ? (crude estimate)

  Map Group -- Smith 1826 -- with Research Notes

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MN: 25.2.2002