Map Collection

OS 1810s
Old Series
(1840s edition)

FA2003.1.15:- 
Map, uncoloured engraving, One inch map Old Series, sheet 15, Salisbury, including part of Hampshire, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, published under the direction of LtCol Mudge, Ordnance Survey, Tower of London, London, 1811; edition about 1846?
The map includes Salisbury, Cranbourne, Downton Wimborne, etc, Dorset; and Ringwood and other parts of Hampshire.
In Hampshire the following railways are shown - Southampton and Dorchester Railway, and Eastleigh to Salisbury branch railway.
Pale marbled papers are pasted on the end sections to indicate the right folding; the retailer's label on the slip case has a tiny location map snipped from an index sheet to the map series.
map feature:-  not coloured & sectioned for folding & mounted & folded (7x3 pieces) & slip case & scale line & piano key border & rivers & woods & forests & relief & hill hachuring & parks & county & settlements & roads & railways & canals
inscription:-  printed -on- top right, outside border No.XV / 15
inscription:-  printed -on- right border Parallel to the Meridian of Greenwich
inscription:-  printed -on- bottom right Engraved at the Drawing Room in the Tower by Benjn. Baker & Assistants - The Writing by E. Bourne.
inscription:-  printed -on- bottom centre Printed from an Electotype
inscription:-  printed -on- label pasted bottom centre Sold by J. Wyld, Geographer to Her Majesty / CHARING CROSS EAST. / (four doors from Trafalgar Square.)
inscription:-  printed -on- bottom left Published 1st. Augt. 1811, by Lt. Coll. Mudge, Tower.
inscription:-  printed -on- left border Parallel to the Meridian of Butterton Hill
inscription:-  printed -on- in borders, top, right, bottom, left 14 / 11/ 16 / 18 -- next sheet numbers
inscription:-  printed -on- label on slip case JAMES WYLD / Geographer TO HER Majesty / ... / CHARING CROSS EAST. / 4 Doors from Trafalgar Square. / MAPS, CHARTS, GLOBES & GEOGRAPHICAL WORKS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
inscription:-  -on- [1846]
inscription:-  printed -on- across map S E T
dimension:-  wxh, folded = 12.5x22.5cm
wxh, sheet = 86.5x67cm
wxh, map (borders; includes gaps) = 79x62.5cm
scale = 1 to 63360 (nominal)

reference:-  Harley, J B (intro) & O'Donoghue, Yolande (intro): 1981: Old Series Ordnance Survey Maps of England and Wales & South-central England: Margary, Harry (Lympne Castle, Kent): vol.3: ISBN 0 903541 03 3
  Map Group -- OS 1810s Old Series -- with Research Notes

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

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MN: 30.1.2004