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FA2001.141:-
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Map, Hampshire, with the Isle of Wight, 6 sheets, scale about 1 mile to 1
inch, by Isaac Taylor, 1759.
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The 6 sheets are mounted together on paper and textile.
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map feature:-
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mounted & title cartouche & scroll cartouche & dedication &
table of symbols & subscribers & vignettes & compass rose &
winds & lat and long scales (rectangular) & lat and long grid &
coast form lines & rivers & relief & hill hachuring & woods
& forests & parks & county & hundreds & settlements &
roads & canals & antiquities & mills & water mills &
windmills & ships |
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inscription:- |
printed -on- lower right
With submission, / TO ... / in grateful remembrance of the kind Assistance
in this Work / and the many particular Favours they have honoured me with, /
this Map of Hampshire, / Including the ISLE of WIGHT, / is most Humbly Dedicated
/ BY their most obliged humble Servant / Isaac Taylor. / Augst. 20th. 1759. /
Estates are accurately Survey'd and / maps of them neatly drawn at the /
Customary Prices.
-- scroll cartouche with decoration and scene |
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inscription:- |
printed -on- bottom right
R Benning Sculp
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scale line:-
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4 miles = 101.1 mm |
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dimension:- |
wxh, mount = 145x166cm |
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scale = 1 to 64000 ? (1 to 63673 from scale line assuming modern statute
mile) |
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scale = 1 to 650000 ? (from town positions using DISTAB.exe) |
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Map Group -- Taylor 1759 -- with Research Notes
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town names:-
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Hampshire
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Hampshire
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modern name
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Christ Church
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Christchurch
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town names:-
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Hampshire
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Hampshire
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modern name
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Fordingbridg
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Fordingbridge
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Ringwood
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Ringwood
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town names:-
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Hampshire
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Hampshire
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modern name
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Lymington
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Lymington
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town names:-
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Hampshire
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Hampshire
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Romsey
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Romsey
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Stockbridge
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Stockbridge
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town names:-
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Hampshire
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Hampshire
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Andover
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Andover
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town names:-
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Hampshire
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Hampshire
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Southampton
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Southampton
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town names:-
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Hampshire
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Hampshire
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Winchester
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Winchester
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town names:-
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Hampshire
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Hampshire
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modern name
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Whitchurch
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Whitchurch
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town names:-
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Hampshire
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Hampshire
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Fareham
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Fareham
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Gosport
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Gosport
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Portsmouth
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Portsmouth
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town names:-
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Hampshire
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Hampshire
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Bishops Waltham
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Bishops Waltham
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Arlsford
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Alresford
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town names:-
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Hampshire
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Hampshire
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Basingstoke
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Basingstoke
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Kingsclere
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Kingsclere
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town names:-
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Hampshire
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Hampshire
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Havant
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Havant
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town names:-
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Hampshire
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Hampshire
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Petersfield
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Petersfield
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town names:-
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Hampshire
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Hampshire
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map name
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modern name
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Alton
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Alton
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Odiham
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Odiham
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