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FA2001.136:-
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Strip map, road map, hand coloured engraving, scale about 2-2.5 miles to 1
inch, parts of the Road from London to Chichester and a branch to Winchester,
and the Road from London to Derby, from a road book by John Senex, 1719, edition
printed for John Bowles and Son, The Black Horse, Cornhill, London, after
1757.
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From Roads through England Delineated; ... Ogilby's survey revised, improved and
reduced to a size portable for the pocket.
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Pl.40 from Guildford through Godalming, Surrey; then Midhurst to Chichester,
West Sussex; AND a branch from Midhurst, West Sussex; through Petersfield to
Winchester, Hampshire.
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Pl.41 from Stony Straford, Buckinghamshire; through Northampton and Brickworth,
Northamptonshire; then Market Harborough, Leicester, Loughborough and Kegworth,
Leicestershire; to Derby, Derbyshire.
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Note - the plate number is at top left and right, the map is double sided.
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inscription:- |
printed -on- title cartouche
The ROAD from LONDON to CHICHESTER / With a Branch from Midhurst to
WINCHESTER. / Commencing at Guilford in the Portsmouth Road ...
-- title and table of distances |
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inscription:- |
printed -on- title cartouche
The ROAD from LONDON to DERBY. / Commencing at Stony Stratfrod in ye
Holy-Head Road ...
-- title and table of distances |
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map feature:-
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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 Cornhill, London, 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 &
mills & water mills & 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') |
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dimension:- |
wxh, sheet = 23x18.5cm |
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wxh, plate (pl.40) = 204x159mm |
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scale = 1 to 150000 ? (approx) |
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Map Group -- Senex 1757 -- with Research Notes
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| MN: 4.10.2001 |
