notes Laurie and Whittle 1806

	Research Notes Map Group LAURIE & WHITTLE 1806

Laurie and Whittle 1806
	Road book, New Traveller's Companion, including two road maps with sections in Hampshire, scale about 7.5 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman, published by Robert Laurie and James Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1806; published 1806-15.
	Plates 3 and 5 concern Hampshire and are in the Map Collection of Hampshire CC Museums Service, items HMCMS:FA1997.102 and HMCMS:FA1999.137.
	The map is very 'clean', there is no great litter of symbols; but there is a clutter of roads! The map size, plate 3, is 251x304mm set sideways on a double page, paper 320x258mm, folded 160x258mm ie a road book or atlas about 16x26cm.
	MAP FEATURES
	ROAD FEATURES, TURNPIKES & POST HORSES
	ROAD BOOK
	PUBLISHING HISTORY
	ITEMS in the Collection
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MAP FEATURES
	(Most of the features were noted from plate 3 which came into the Map Collection first.)
title map maker engraver	Printed in the top border of plate 3 is:- Roads to Arundel, Bognor, (by Petworth) ... Chichester, and Portsmouth. Printed across the top of plate 5 is:- Commencement of the Road to the Lands End as far as Salisbury with Roads to Gosport, Southampton, Lymington, Christ Church, Winchester, Ringwood, E.Lavington, and Devizes. At the bottom of both plates 3 and 5 is:- ROADS MEASURED FROM LONDON BRIDGE. Published 12th. Feby. 1806, by LAURIE & WHITTLE, No.53, Fleet Street, London. B. Smith sc. Our copy of plate 5 also having:- A New Edition, 1815.
orientation north point up is destination	Orientation is provided by a simple cross line, north marked by a spear point. The map is arranged 'up is out from London'; London is at the bottom, Portsmouth at the top of plate 3, London at the bottom, Salisbury at the top of plate 5.
scale line scale	The scale of the map is indicated by a scale line 0..13 miles, with quarter miles in a segment -1..0. The scale line is 45.1mm, the map scale is thus 1 to 463891 or about:- 1 to 460000 7 miles to 1 inch
coast line coast form lines harbours	The coast line is just a bold line. But in harbours, estuaries an the lower parts if rivers there might be form lines as well:- Portsmouth Harbour Southampton Water
rivers ferries bridges	Rivers are shown by a wiggly line tapering upwards; in the wider parts there might be form lines. The river may be labelled, eg:- Rother River [near Midhurst] River Anton Bridges are implied by the road crossing and interupting the line of a river. The bridge might be labelled, eg:- Portsea Bridge by Cosham. Or just:- Bridge The river might not be drawn, for example at:- Stain bridge [near Petersfield] Sheet Bridge by Petersfield. The crossing from portsmouth to Gosport is labelled:- Ferry
relief hill hachuring	relief is not much noticed, what is shown is drawn with hill hachuring. Hind Head Hill Ports Down are named but have no hachuring or other symbol. Butser Hill is shown by hachures with the road going across a flank.
woods forests	There are no tree symbols, but some aforestation is labelled, eg:- Bere Forest New Forest
county	Counties are labelled in block caps spread across their area. The county boundaries are a fine dotted line, shaded by colour on this copy.
settlements	Settlements are marked by single square blocks in the course of the road, and are not differentiated by size. Although the map is drawn over a whole sheet, not in scrolls, places laid out in their correct position, only places on the major and minor routes are drawn. The size of place is differentiated by the labelling;
city	Block caps text, eg:- WINCHESTER

town	Lowercase upright text, eg:- Petersfield

village hamlet	Lowercase italic text, eg:- Liphook

canals	Canals are shown by a wiggly triple line, light, bold, light. In Hampshire there are labelled:- Basingstoke Canal Stratfield Branch The branch to Stratfield Turgis was never built. Also see:- Andover Canal Salisbury Canal And notice the River Itchen is also labelled:- Barge River The Kennet and Avon Canal is shown across Berkshire and Wiltshire.
miscellaneous
inns	A number of inns are marked and labelled, they are useful to travellers, eg:- Wheatsheaf Inn Leckford Hut Hill Pound Inn
obelisks	On Putney Heath there is:- Obelisk
barracks	At Hilsea there are:- Hilsea Barracks
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ROAD FEATURES,	TURNPIKES & POST HORSES
roads road distances distances from London turnpike gates	The map is a road map, and shows only a limited selection of routes. Although places on the map are plotted in their proper position (near enough) the roads are nearly all drawn with straight segments between the places. Roads are graded by importance. More important roads are drawn with a double line; the two main routes from London to Portsmouth, and branching off at Godalming, to Chichester. Lesser routes are drawn by a single continuous line, and smaller routes by a single dotted line. There are lengths of double line with one or both sides dotted which denote 'Cross Mails':- Some places are accompanied by a connecting label, eg at Alton:- see p.5. Distances are given at places, not at regular miles along the roads. Distances are given to the nearest quarter mile from London Bridge on plate 3, from Hyde Park Corner on plate 5. For example at Petersfield:- 54 1/4 from London Bridge. Some of the minor routes have their length alongside the road, for instance the dotted route labelled:- At least one junction is named:- Petersfield to Alton 13 miles. Lobcombe Corner just outside Hampshire, in Wiltshire on the Lands End Road. There are miscellaneous references to turnpike; a square dot marking either a toll gate or the start of a stretch of turnpiked road? Examples Fishbourn Turnpike Cocking Turnpike Vauxhall Turnpike And also Benge's Gate And in Hampshire:- Brookhurst Turnpike [plate 5]
post horses	Against some place labels there is an asterisk, on plate 3 in Hampshire in the Portsmouth Road at:- Liphook Petersfield Horndean Portsmouth and also, in Hampshire, at:- Alton Emsworth Fareham Gosport Havant and on plate 5 in Hampshire on the Lands End Road at:- Blackwater Hartford Bridge Murrell Green Basingstoke Worting Overton Whitchurch Andover in the Poole via Southampton Road at:- Alton Alresford Winchester Stony Cross Ringwood on the Lymington branch at:- Lyndhurst Lymington on the Gosport branch at:- Warnford Wickham Fareham Gosport and elsewhere in Hampshire:- Christchurch Botley Fordingbridge Odiham Stockbridge Sutton Wheatsheaf Inn The stars do not have anything to do with returning members to Parliament, as asterisks are commonly used on maps of this period. The asterisks mark:- Towns and Places which supply the Traveller with Post Horses and Carriages as given in the 'Explanation'.
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ROAD BOOK
	These notes have been made from a copy of the complete road book:-
	Coltman, Nathaniel: 1806: New Traveller's Companion: Laurie and Whittle (London)
	The copy studied is in a private collection and we are grateful to be allowed access. This copy of the book is half bound, wxh=17x32.5cm.
	The road book title page reads:-
	LAURIE AND WHITTLE'S NEW TRAVELLER'S COMPANION Exhibiting A COMPLETE AND CORRECT SURVEY Of all the DIRECT and principal CROSS ROADS in ENGLAND, WALES and SCOTLAND, as far North as Edinburgh, and Glasgow: by Nathl: Coltman. 1806 Published 12th. Feby. 1806 by LAURIE & WHITTLE, No.53 Fleet Street, London.
	There is an advertisement:-
	THE principal Credit the Author attaches to himself, from the Construction of this Work, is the ease with which the Traveller may find his Way from the Metropolis to any Part of the Kingdom, (as far North only as Edinburgh and Glasgow,) and from one Market Town to another. It must claim a Superiority over any Itinerary, from the Roads being kept so connected, that the Traveller may find his Way to the most distant Part, without the unnumerable references which must unavoidably occur in all Works of that Description:- it likewise has a great Advantage over a Map of England, by the Names of Places reading parallel to the Sight, whereas all the Southern and South-Western Roads in the General map read upside down.h
	The Roads inserted in this Work are those usually travelled, from the Metropolis to every City, Market Town, Manufacturing Town and Seaport in the Kingdom; and particular care has been taken to select those Cross-Roads, from one Place to another, which may be travelled with Safety at any Season of the Year.
	The Rivers, and the whole of the navigable Canals (for which Acts of Parliament have passed) which intersect the Roads, are inserted to gratify the Curiosity of the Traveller; but, as it is impossible to obtain accurate Knowledge of the intended Course of such as are not yet completed, any Information from Gentlemen Tourists will much oblige the Publishers.
	The road book has an 'Explanation' which declares:-

	cities [labelled in upright block caps]
	market towns [labelled in upright lowercase text]
	villages etc [labelled in lowercase italic]
	Mail Coach Roads (Direct) [double line, bold light, coloured pink]
	Cross Mails [double line, dotted, coloured pink]
	Principal Travelling Roads [bold single line]
	Other Direct Roads [light single line]
	Cross Roads [dotted single line]
	Towns and Places which supply the Traveller with Post Horses and Carriages [marked with an asterisk]
	Two plates concern Hampshire.
plate 3	The triangle of country defined by London, Arundel, and Portsmouth:- Roads to Arundel, Bognor (by Petworth), Chichester, and Portsmouth. This has three main routes, besides a number of minor roads:- from London through Putney; to Kingston on Thames, Guildford, Godalming, Surrey; then Liphook, Petersfield, Horndean to Portsmouth, Hampshire. branch from Godalming to Haslemere, Surrey; then Petworth to Chichester, West Sussex. There is a 'Cross Mails' route:- continued from Salisbury, Wiltshire on plate 5; to Cosham, Havant, Emsworth, Hampshire; to Chichester, West Sussex.
Plate 5	The triangle of country defined by London, Gosport, and Devizes. This includes five major routes and many minor roads:- from London; through Brentford to Staines, Middlesex; then Bagshot, Surrey; into Hampshire at Blackwater, to Basingstoke, Whitchurch, Andover, through Middle Wallop, Hampshire to the Wiltshire border; to Salisbury, Wiltshire in the road to Lands End. branching from the Lands End Road at the Golden Farmer near Bracknell, to Farnham, Surrey; then Alton, Alresford, Winchester, to Southampton, then to Ringwood, Hampshire; in the road to Poole, Dorset. also from Southampton to Lyndhurst and Lymington, Hampshire. branching from the Southampton Road by Chawton, to Filmore Hill, Wickham, Fareham to Gosport, Hampshire. and there is a 'Cross Mails' route:- from Salisbury, Wiltshire; to Romsey, Southampton, Fareham, Hampshire going to Chichester on plate 3. and a short branch from Whiteparish; Wiltshire to Cadnam, Hampshire.
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PUBLISHING	HISTORY
	Published in 'Laurie and Whittle's New Travellers Companion, Exhibiting a complete and correct Survey of all the Direct and principal Cross Roads in England, Wales, and Scotland as far North as Edinburgh, and Glasgow: by Nathl: Coltman. 1806. Published 12th. Feby. 1806 by LAURIE & WHITTLE, No.53 Fleet Street, London.'
	Published in 'Second Edition corrected to 1807 ... to which has been added the Roads to Perth and Aberdeen ... Published 12th. Feby. 1806 ...' but 1807.
	Published in 'Laurie and Whittle's New Traveller's Companion; exhibiting a complete and correct survey of all the direct and principal cross roads in England, Wales, and Scotland; as far North as Edinburgh and Glasgow: together with the Roads to Perth and Aberdeen, Greenock, Irvine, Ayr, Port-Patrick, Wigton, &c. Accompanied by A New General Map ... and an Index Villaris ... The fifth edition ... London: Printed by Harding and Wright, St. John's Square, for Robert Laurie and James Whittle, Map, Chart, and print, sellers, No.53 Fleet-Street. 1810.'
	The atlas has an index of towns and villages, a plate of explanations, general maps and 25 route maps; its size is 6 1/4 x 10 1/2 ins.
	Published in an edition 1815.
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ITEMS	in HMCMS Map Collection (scanned item in bold)
	HMCMS:FA1997.102 -- road map
	HMCMS:FA1999.137 -- road map
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