notes Lodge 1788

	Research Notes Map Group LODGE 1788

Lodge 1788
	New Map of Hampshire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Lodge, London, 1788; published 1788-95.
	These notes are made from an anonymous map which is believed to be the 1795 edition of a New Map of Hampshire by John Lodge, drawn 1782, first published 1788. The item studied is in the Library Collection of Hampshire CC Museum Service, tipped into a book:-
	Warner, Richard: 1795: Collections for the History of Hampshire and the Bishopric of Winchester: (London)
	The map is item HMCMS:B1990.1135.1.

	MAP FEATURES
	PUBLISHING HISTORY
	REFERENCES
	ITEMS in the Collection

MAP FEATURES
title	Printed upper left:- A NEW MAP OF HAMPSHIRE, FROM THE LATEST AUTHORITIES.
orientation compass rose up is N	Printed on the right is a compass rose; circle, star points for cardinal directions, lines for half cardinal directions, North marked by a fleur de lys. The map is printed with North at the top of the sheet.
lat and long scales lat and long grid	Printed in the borders are scale of latitude and longitude for a rectangular projection; chequered at 2 minute intervals, labelled at 10 minute intervals. The top border is labelled:- Longit. West from London There is a lat and long grid; just the parallel at 51 degrees west and the meridian at 1 degree north.
scale line scale	The map has a scale line of 10 miles, chequered at two mile intervals, except the first two miles at one mile intervals. Labelled:- British Statute Miles 69 to a degree 10 miles = 49.5mm gives a scale, assuming a statute mile, 1 to 325120, about:- 1 to 330000 5 miles to 1 inch
sea area sea plain sandbanks	The sea area is plain with some labelling, for example:- Stokes Bay ENGLISH CHANNEL Spithead Southampton Key or Trisanton Bay Sandbanks and shallows are suggested by a dotted line offshore in the sea which is otherwise plain.
coast line coast shaded	The coast line is shaded horizontally, taken up into harbours and river estuaries.
rivers bridges ponds ferries	Rivers are shown as a double wiggly line with form lines, narrowing to a single line tapering upstream. The larger rivers are labelled, eg:- Auborn R Itchen R A river starts at Eastrop by Basingstoke and flows east and north to Hartley Wespall; a river starts at Mapledurwell and flows north east; these meet head on, going no where! Some ponds, or lakes, are marked, Alresford Pond for example, some are labelled, eg:- Fleet Pond Bridges are implied by the roads interupting the rivers. These are mostly unlabelled, but see, for example:- London Bridge [at Blackwater] Red Br Gr. Bridge [N of Romsey] Knights Br [Berks border] Ferries are neither marked or labelled. However, the road layout by Bursledon is very suggestive of a river crossing by ferry.
castles coastal defence	A few of the coastal defence castles are labelled:- Hurst Cast. Calshot Castle Southsea Castle There are no fortifications around Portsmouth or Gosport.
relief hillocks	The map indicates relief by little hillocks, shaded to the east. These are grouped, a little, but do not clearly portray the shape of the county. There are groupings near the county boundary Liphook-Petersfield and Hale-Bramshaw, for example. A few hills are labelled, eg:- Popham Beacon but no symbol for a beacon, and:- Basingstoke Down and:- Black Hill Knowl Hill on the Wiltshire border.
woods forests vegetation	Little tree symbols are used to depict areas of woodland and forests, which may be labelled, eg:- NEW FORREST East Bere Forest There are unlabelled, groups, for example near Froyle. Trees are also drawn in parks. Some labelling indicates commons etc:- Aldershot Common Havant Chace
parks	Parks are shown by a ring of fence palings with a railing; round, oval or irregular shapes. Some are labelled, eg:- Hackwood Park Fremantle Park Many are not. Some have a settelement symbol within the park, a circle with a small flag, for the great house? eg:- Rotherfield Or it might be a circle plus a cross, eg:- Dogmersfield or just a circle, eg:- Moyles Court
county	The county boundary is a dotted line. Hundreds are not shown. Adjacent counties are labelled, eg:- DORSET SH. The part of Hampshire in the Ambersham area, now Sussex,, is not included. A very little is drawn in the adjacent counties, Farnham, Downton, Labcomb Corner, for example, just to make sense of the county's mapping.
table of symbols	There is a table of:- Remarks Winchester is a City Boro-Towns with the No. of Membrs. they send to Parliamt. by stars [circle and buildings plus the stars] Market Towns [circle and buildings] Rectories and Vicarages [circle and cross] Places where Fairs are kept have a Line under the Name thus [img]
settlements	Settlements are located by a circle and graded by extra elements and their text.
city	circle, plus blocks drawn as a great junction of roads with no attempt at a street plan; upright block caps, eg:- WINCHESTER

town	circle and buildings; upright lowercase text, eg:- Fareham Portsmouth but also:- SOUTHAMPTON

village	circle and cross ie a vicarage; italic lowercase text, eg:- Owslebury Alton

hamlet	circle; italic lowercase text, eg:- Silver Str. W Wellow Clanville

house	circle and a small flag; italic lowercase text, eg:- Rotherfield is used for ?great house in a park.
	Some labelling shows clear signs of inaccurate copying, eg:- Dinny Lodge Henaistbury Head Sparshelt Gatfield Saye Barton Tracey and misplacement, eg: Emsworth north of Havant and the river Ems missing; Liphook in Sussex. There is a nice 'silly' from this sort of error:- Bishops labels a village symbol, and to its south is:- Sutton labelling a separate hamlet.
boroughs	Borough towns have asterisks on short spikes attached to their symbol; each star indicates a member sent to Parliament:- Andover 2 Christchurch 2 Lymington 2 Petersfield 2 Southampton 2 Stockbridge 2 Whitchurch 2 Winchester 2
fairs	Fairs are indicated by the place name being underlined:- Alton Appleshaw Barton Tracey Bishops Waltham Botley Broughton East Meon Emsworth Eversley Hambledon Havant Heckfield Liphook Lyss Mattinger Southwick Tangley Wickham
roads	A network of roads is drawn; the roads drawn by a double line, not differentiated by size etc. Some routes leaving the county are labelled, eg:- from Pool to London And one junction is labelled:- Labcomb Corner
miscellaneous
antiquities roman roads roman towns	Some roman roads are lebelled:- Port Way Ikenield way Roman Way [Sarum-Winchester] At the end of one road is a circle surrounded by a ring of dots, for the roman town:- Silchester
gallows	Just outside the county, in Berkshire, is a small diagram labelled:- Gallows north of East Woodhay.
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PUBLISHING	HISTORY
	Published, opposite p.85, in 'The Political Magazine and Parliamentary, Naval, Military, and Literary Journal ... London: Printed for R. Butters, No.79, Fleet Street.' 1788.
	The journal size is 5 x 7 1/2 ins; map size 27x33cm; there was a map of England in the issue for 30 Nov 1785.
	The maps were reprinted 1795, the imprints removed.
	A map which could be this map is published in 'COLLECTIONS / FOR THE / HISTORY / OF / HAMPSHIRE, / AND THE BISHOPRIC OF WINCHESTER: / INCLUDING THE ISLES OF WIGHT, JERSEY, GUERNSEY, AND SARKE, / BY D.Y. / ... / ... TO WHICH IS ADDED, A GLOSSARY / EXPLANATORY OF THE OBSOLETE WORDS. / By RICHARD WARNER, / OF SWAY IN THE COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, AND OF ST. MARY HALL, OXFORD. / ... / LONDON: / PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, AND SOLD BY MESSRS. RIVINGTON, ST PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD; / MESSRS. CADELL AND DAVIES, STRAND; LAW, AVE-MARIA-LANE; / SEWEL, CORNHILL; THE BOOKSELLERS OF SALISBURY, OXFORD, / WINCHESTER, AND SOUTHAMPTON. / ...' dated in the preface, 1795.
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REFERENCES
	: 1788 (31 August): Political Magazine, The: (London)
	DY & Warner, Richard: 1795: Collections for the History of Hampshire: Rivington & Cadell and Davies & Law & Sewel (London)

ITEMS	in HMCMS Map Collection (scanned item in bold)
	HMCMS:B1990.1135.1 -- map
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