notes OS 1810s Old Series

	Research Notes Map Group OS 1810s OLD SERIES

OS 1810s Old Series

	These notes are about the Old Series, or 1st edition, 1 inch maps, published by the Ordnance Survey, supervised by LtCol William Mudge, Tower of London, London 1810-1817. Sheets 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, and 16, cover Hampshire, The examples of these maps in the HMCMS Map Collection are items HMCMS:FA2003.1.8 to .16 and HMCMS:FA1998.91, index sheet HMCMS:FA2003.8.
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	The introduction to these maps by Harley and O'Donoghue in the Margary publication is immensely helpful and far more expert than these notes. But the notes here are about Hampshire, and are written to the pattern used for other, earlier, printed maps of the county. This is not an unthought strategy; while it may not be most apt for mapping done in a new and scientific manner, the pattern does enable comparison with earlier maps.

	MAP FEATURES
	MAP FEATURES - ROADS, CANALS, RAILWAYS
	HAMPSHIRE TOWNS
	PUBLISHING HISTORY & SHEET NUMBERS
	MAP FOLDING, COVERS, SLIP CASES
	REFERENCES
	ITEMS in the Collection
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MAP FEATURES
	Notes and illustrative snips are taken from Hampshire parts of any sheet in the Map Collection. Areas outside the county are mostly ignored.
piano key border	The maps have a border known as a paino key border.
title map maker	The maps do not have a title on the sheet, though there is a name attached to the sheet in the list in the index map for the series. Sheet 11 is named:- Winchester The sheet number is printed top right in roman numerals, eg:- No. XI and on later editions is repeated in arabic numerals, above and to the right, eg:- 11 Printed top left:- Engraved at the Drawing Room in the Tower under the Direction of Lt. Coll. Mudge, by Benjn. Baker & Assistants - The Writing by Ebenr. Bourne. / Price Two Shillings Printed bottom:- Published 10th. April 1810, by Lt. Coll. Mudge, Tower. / Printed from an Electrotype
orientation up is N	Although the maps are printed with North at the top of the sheet, this 'up' is at a small angle to 'up' of the modern Ordnance Survey sheets.
lat and long grid meridian	The Old Series maps use a projection based on a local meridian. Printed in the top and bottom borders of sheet 11 is a line marking the local meridian, labelled:- Meridian of Dunnose Latitude 50[d]. 37[m]. 8[s]. / Longitude 1[d]. 11[m]. 36[s]. West The Meridian of Dunnose runs from Dunnose, Isle of Wight to Clifton, Yorkshire. It passes through Hampshire and used triangulation stations at Butser Hill and Highclere. Other nearby stations that made triangles with these were: Dean Hill, Wiltshire; Hindhead and Bagshot, Surrey; Whitehorse Hill, Berkshire; Nuffield, Oxfordshire. The triangulation is described by Mudge and Colby 1811. Printed in the right border:- Parallel to the Meridian at Greenwich The maps have no scales of latitude and longitude by which to know where a place is, though accurate knowledge of this information is implicit in the plotting.
scale line scale	Printed in the bottom border is a:- Scale of Statute Miles marked and labelled in miles, with a left extension marked and labelled in furlongs. The 5+1 miles = 149.1 mm gives a scale 1 to 64676. The nominal map scale is:- 1 to 63360 1 inch to 1 mile
table of symbols	The topographical conventions used for the maps were printed separately and are illustrated by Harley and O'Donoghue.
sea area sea plain buoys wrecks	The sea area is plain, with some areas labelled, eg:- STOKES BAY SPITHEAD buoys are not marked generally, but a conical buoy is drawn in Spithead, labelled:- Buoy of the Royal George which ship sank in 1782 and was still obstructing shipping in The Solent to the mid 19th century.
coast line coast form lines foreshore headlands sandbanks coast appearance lighthouses harbours	The coast line is emphasized by elegant form lines. The engraving is in two stages: from the coast line out across the foreshore, reducing to nothing; from the edge of the foreshore out into the sea, reducing again. The engraving is eye catching, particularly around the channels in Portsmouth Harbour and the East and West Winner at the entrance to Langstone Harbour, sheet 11. Channels in the foreshore are clearly marked, and occasionally labelled, eg:- Ashlet Lake Oar Creek Rocks might be marked on the foreshore. Where there are cliffs the coast line is drawn to show their appearance from the sea, for example west of Hengistbury Head and the coast off Milton. Headlands are noticed eg:- Needs Oar Point Stone Point Gilkicker Point The shallows and channels and islands are drawn in the harbours, some of which are labelled, eg:- PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR Langston Harbour In Portsmouth Harbour there are labelled:- Pewitt Island Horsea Island Whale Id. Porchester Lake Fountain Lake Fareham Lake as well as the coastal features. Notice the use of 'lake' for channel. The term has two meanings, from two separate roots; here it means channel from its teutonic root. On Hurst Spit there is labelled:- Light House
coastal defence castles fortifications	Many of the old coastal defence castles and more recent fortifications are shown, together with related works. The fortifications clearly drawn as artillery style polygonal defences. See:- Hurst Castle Calshot Castle Netley Castle [fortification, Fort Gilkicker] Barracks [at Haslar] Haslar Hospital [fortification, Fort Blockhouse] [fortification, around Gosport] Burrow Fort Priddys Hard [and fortification] [fortification, along Ports Creek] [fortification on mainland at Ports Bridge] Hilsea Redoubt Hilsea Barracks Magazine [Tipner Point] [fortification, round Royal Navy dockyard] [fortification, round Portsmouth] S. Sea Castle [fortification, Lumps Fort] [fortification] Cumberland Fort On a later edition of the 1 inch maps, government maps, the coastal defences are partly erased. The fortifications around Gosport and the dockyard and town at Portsmouth, are, for example, blanked out. Haslar Hospital and Priddy's Hard are gone, and so on.
rivers ponds watermeadows bridges ferries	Rivers are drawn with a double line sometimes with form lines, perhaps suggesting their true width? with the west bank engraved bolder, a shadow to the east or south east. Where narrower the river is drawn by a single wiggly line tapering upstream. Large and moderate size meanders should be plotted accurately at this scale; but remember that rivers are dynamic systems, and meanders do just that. Braiding is shown. Many rivers are labelled, eg:- The Anton or Test R. RIVER ITCHEN Beaulieu River Town Brook [Basingstoke] and some river mouths are labelled, eg:- Bourne Mouth which is pretty near uninhabited at this date. Above Stockbridge the Test/Anton is labelled Test; the river through Andover is labelled Anton; the stream through St Mary Bourne is labelled Test. This is not an unusual muddle. A river flood plain might be engraved, perhaps by a roulette? to suggest tussocky meadows. Below Bossington a flood plain engraved like this is labelled:- Water Mead The map shows the complicated streams and artificial channels of the water meadows south of Downton, on the Avon. Some springs are noticed, eg:- Springs [S of East Meon] Newram Springs [ESE of Basingstoke] Some ponds are drawn in outline and labelled, eg:- Sowley Pond Creech Pond An unlabelled pond might be unrecognised, it's just another shape. A pond in the flood plain of the Itchen, level with North Stoneham is labelled:- Decoy where there was a duck decoy for hunters. Flash Pond on Beaulieu Heath uses a local word for a marsh or pond. On the stream 2 miles ENE of Southwick Park is a:- Sheepwash Bridges are implied where a road crosses and interrupts a stream. Some are labelled, eg:- Boldre Bridge [Lymington River] Skidmore Bridge [Test] A ferry might be noticed, eg:- Itchen Ferry
relief hill hachuring	Relief is indicated by hill hachuring, which, disentangled from other features, is moderately successful at giving a local impression of landscape; it does not show the shape of the country as a whole. The relationship of rivers to valleys, and roads to ridges, is often very clear. Some hills are labelled, eg:- PORTS DOWN Butser Hill Bere Down Toot Hill As well as hills some valleys are labelled, eg:- Hollywell Bottom [W of Kingsclere]
beacons	Beacons are not marked by any symbol, but some of the old beacon sites are suggested by hill names, eg:- Beacon Hill [Burghclere] Beacon Hill [N of Exton] Beacon Hill [NW of Dibden] and at least one is named:- Bushy Beacon [ESE of Sarisbury Green]
woods forests trees vegetation plantations	Woodland is indicated by large and small tree and bush symbols, in enclosed and unenclosed groups. Many groups of trees are accompanied by dotting for rough or uncultivated ground. The density of ground cover and bushes and trees is varied to give an impression of real landscape. Many woods are labelled, eg:- FOREST of BERE Out Hurst Wood In Hurst Wood Holt Wood Bells Coppice all in the East Bere Forest area. Nearly all woods are shown with deciduous tree symbols. There are some fir trees noticed, eg:- Fir Trees by an indeterminate symbol east of Catherington. In a park the tree symbols might be drawn in avenues. There is an unnamed plantation of fir trees, in rows, on The Barnet south of Colemore. A few individual trees are labelled, not always attached to a particular tree symbol, eg:- Wollaston's Willow [E of Bossington] Marlpit Oak [S of Brockenhurst] Bound Oak [W of Rowlands Castle] Bound Tree [S of Dibden] Yew Tree [E of Dibden] which last may just be descriptive, not a name, but it does have its own distinctive tree symbol, a fir. A variety of land areas are labelled indicating their nature, eg:- Blendworth Comn. Creech Plain West Heath [W of Pamber] Hartford Bridge Flats Wallop Fields Peat Moor
parks	At this scale parks are shown in some detail, for example:-
Bramshill Park	Outline with fence palings, trees and avenues, ponds, house, roads, etc.

Hackwood Park	Parkland, formal rides, house, lodge, roads, etc.

Hurstbourne House	Hills, lakes, house, trees and avenues, statue, keepers lodge, etc.

county	The county boundary is a bold dotted line; the line might be engraved less bold where it would spoil other engraving, eg the edge of Lady Holt Park east of Charlton on the Sussex border. Remember that these maps are not 'county' maps but parts of an overall survey of the country. Topographic detail is plotted allover the sheets, not stopping at, taking little notice of, county boundaries. The county is named, labelled on sheets 12 and 11:- H A M P S H I R E in large block caps which are engraved to overlie hachures and land boundaries, but underlie settlements and roads; a pretty conceit. The detached part of the county in Sussex is bounded, and labelled:- PART of HAMPSHIRE
settlements streets	Settlements are marked by groups of blocks on roads or streets; or by shaded and shadowed areas representing built up areas, on a street plan; a cross marks a church. Places are differentiated by size of group and by size and style of labelling.
city	shaded and shadowed areas on a street plan, perhaps some blocks, perhaps a cross for a church; labelled in upright block caps:- WINCHESTER Among the clutter is it is possible to pick out the cathedral, drawn in solid outline, and river streams.
	The style of lettering is used for large towns:- PORTSMOUTH SOUTHAMPTON
town	Shaded and shadowed areas on streets and/or groups of blocks, a cross for a church; labelled in italic block caps, eg:- PETERSFIELD STOCKBRIDGE The leading capital being a little larger. Notice that Fordingbridge is downgraded to a village.

village	group of blocks on roads and streets, a cross for a church; labelled in upright lowercase text, eg:- Hambledon Hinton Ampner East Worldham

hamlet	smaller scatter of blocks on roads; labelled in italic lowercase text, eg:- Nurstead Oakhanger Neatham
	The last style of text is used generally, in smaller and smaller sizes depending on how busy the map is, for labelling all sorts of features. All labels have a leading capital letter, which is correct for proper nouns in English, not for nouns and descriptive terms generally. This makes it difficult to know whether a label is a nominative or descriptive. Some terms are fairly obviously descriptive:- Summer Ho. / Brick Kiln / Monument / Public Ho. / School / Post Office / Tumuli / Well / Factory But some are not so clear:- Cabbage Garden / Beech Coppice / Seven Barrows / Fir Clumps
farms	Numerous farms are marked and labelled, eg:- Stoke Dairy F. Sherfield F. Farm These can be regarded as the smallest sort of settlement, discounting a great house.
miscellaneous	A miscellany of other features are marked and/or labelled on the maps. None give the impression of being consistently, reliably, surveyed. What is shown is, nevertheless, evidence for the individual place shown, even if the coverage does not provide overall evidence of what there was of the particular feature. Some one-off features are:- Redbrook Tan Yard [S of Fordingbridge] Hill Pound [NE edge of Waltham Chace] County Lunatic Asylum [N of Funtley] Dog-kennel [North Park Farm, SE of Stockbridge]
antiquities tumuli hillforts	Numerous antiquities are noticed, eg:- Tumuli [on St Catherine's Hill] Barrow [hatched circle, SE of Yateley] Seven Barrows [N of Litchfield] Ladle Hill [hillfort?] Devils Ditch [SW of St Mary Bourne] Harrow Way [N of Overton] Caesars Camp [SW of Aldershot] Deanbury Hill [hillfort] Kent Barrow Tumulus [SW of Crawley] Ancient Entrencht. [near Toothill] Some less ancient sites are labelled in english black letter, eg:- Priory (Remains of) to the south east of Southwick. Hillforts are drawn by rings of hachures, tumuli by little circles of hachures.
antiquities roman roads	Quite a number of roman roads are noticed, eg:- Roman Road labelled WSW of Freemantle Park, and more helpfully:- Roman Road from Old Sarum to Winchester [S of Kings Sombourne] Roman Road to Porchester [N of Morestead] The road is indicated by an embankment of hachures, perhaps partly including existing modern tracks or roads. One interesting example is seen where the fairly straight road from Winchester to Otterbourn turns away to the west. There is no track or embankment, but along the line to the south is labelled:- from Bitterne which was roman Clausentum.
inns	Inns are labelled here and there, not in towns, eg:- Public Ho. P. Ho. Red Lion [S of Stratfield Turgis] The Plough [Bramshill] Qn Charlotte Inn [E of Andover] Dean Gate Inn Deluge Hut [SW of Crawley]
mills windmills water mills	Water mills are just labelled, perhaps with their specialised purpose, eg:- Horsebridge Mill Fulling Mill [S of Froyle] Mill [nr Neatham] Kingsclere Mill Paper Mill [E of Whitchurch] Corn Mill [SE of Bishops Waltham] Wood Mill [South Stoneham] Windmills have a drawing of a post mill, even if it is a tower mill as at Bursledon. Bursledon Mill Broad halfpenny Mill Charlton Wind Mill and maybe there is just a clue in a hill name, eg:- Windmill Hill [NW of Farnborough]
salterns	Salterns are marked by an outline with diagonal cross hatching, often labelled, eg:- Bounds Saltern [E of Fawley] Great Saltern [no symbol, E coast of Portsea Island] and a large area of hatching:- Salt Works on the coast between Lymington and Milford. There salterns, larger and smaller, all along the coasts of the islands and mainland from Langstone Harbour to beyond Lymington.
brickworks	Brickworks are noticed, labelled as:- Brick Yard Brick Field but mostly:- Brick Kiln
peat diggings	There are Peat Pits SSW of Stockbridge, and in other parts of the county.
osier beds	S of Emsworth is an:- Osier Farm
shipyards	A couple of small ship yards are labelled, eg:- Ship Yard [east bank of Beaulieu River] Baileys Hard [west bank of Beaulieu River] both downstream of Beaulieu.
telegraphs	Telegraph [ENE of Wickham] Bramshaw Telegraph Telegraph [ESE side of Toothill] Telegraph [on Portsdown N of Cosham] Telegraph [by Charlton Windmill]
race courses	Some race courses are shown on the maps. For example on Worthy Down there is an oval track with marker posts:- Race Course / Booth / Stand By Stockbridge on the downland to the north west there is a less well defined track, with some marker posts:- Stockbridge Race Ground
army camps	At Aldershot there are the arrays of the lines, labelled:- North Camp South Camp and:- Cavalry Barracks Infantry Barracks
workhouses	New Forest Union House [SW of Redbridge] Portsea Island Union House Fareham Union House Poor House A union is a parish union, a joint authority for the Poor Law purpose.
pounds	On one road, it is not clear which, south east of Swanmore is:- Hill Pound
gibbets	Marked by a drawing of a post with crossbeam and two dangling items is:- Gibbet outside Bishops Waltham on the road to Wickham, on the edge of Waltham Chace.
mazes	On Breamore Down, in the trees is what looks like a circle of standing stones on:- Mizaze Hill which should be the Mizmaze.
posts	Some posts are marked, drawing of a post and labelled, eg:- Woolmer Post [on Hatchet Green E of Hale] Dibden Post [N of Dibden] Winkton Post [N of Hinton Admiral] Picked Post
monuments	Several monuments are noticed, eg:- Nelsons Monument Rufus's Stone Farley Monument Heathcotes Monument [SW of Romsey] A memorial Stone [ENE of Botley]
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MAP FEATURES	- ROADS,CANALS, RAILWAYS

roads turnpike roads road distances road signs	A detailed network of roads is shown over the whole map. Roads are drawn by double lines, solid or dotted for fenced or unfenced. A line at right angles to the road at the end of a dotted edge, indicates a field boundary delimiting unenclosed land. Roads are drawn with slightly different widths; broader roads with one line bolder are turnpike roads, narrower roads are minor roads. Tracks are drawn by a single dotted line. How much smoothing of the routes is made has not been investigated, but it is clear that these roads are plotted to show how they lie; bends and junction realistically laid out within the limitations of the scale. A few roads have names, eg:- Hog Lane [NW of Kingsclere] Cock Lane [W of Winchester] as are some junctions, eg:- Pimple Corner [WNW of Bossington] Lobcombe Corner Five Lanes [W of St Mary Bourne] Hampshire Cross [N of South Tidworth] Three Legged Cross [5 ways, E of Ashmansworth] Some signposts are indicated, eg:- Direction Post [fork S of Twyford] with a drawing of a finger post. Some turnpike gates are labelled, eg:- T.P. Gate Worting T.P. Gate Kempshot T. Pike T. Pike Port-lane T. Pike Gates are not marked across the road. Notice that a term like:- Whichers Gate not on a turnpike, probably refers to an old park gate, or something! Later editions of the map have spot heights along some roads, for example:- .284 .372 .466 .446 on the road from Basingstoke towards Popham Lane. Road distances seem to be given by figures along some roads, but this is not regular, and no dot or milestone symbol marks where the distance figure belongs. Try following figures 68, 67, 66 back up the London road from Portsmouth - there are no more figures on sheet 11 as far as Petersfield. Numbering to the east of Fareham, towards Cosham, runs 13, 14, ... 17 then beyond Cosham 5, 6, 7, ... and beyond Havant 8, 7, 6, ... towards Chichester. This is not very helpful.
canals	The map shows canals by a curvy line, shadowed on the west side ie to the east, perhaps with form lines. They are mostly labelled. Both road and accommodation bridges are shown. the frequency of the latter distinguishes a canal from a river. Locks are meant to be drawn by an arrow but are mostly missing from the plot. Other features, like winding points which can be shown at this scale, are ignored. If a symbol is declared in the table of symbols it is misleading for the user if the corresponding feature is not plotted regularly. These maps are an unsatisfactory guide to the canals. Fine engraving and accurate plotting do not make a good map; content matters.
Andover Canal	from Andover southwards through Stockbridge, to Redbridge. Labelled:- Canal from Redbridge to Stockbridge Canal Only one lock is shown, by two arrows, pointing downstream which is not the best convention, near Grove Place. This is the 18th lock identified on Whitworth's map 1770; other locks are missing.

Salisbury to Southampton Canal	from near Alderbury, outside Salisbury, Wiltshire, to the Andover Canal by Mottisfont, partly overlain by a railway on later maps. Also from Redbridge to Southampton. No locks. Not labelled.

Basingstoke Canal	from Basingstoke eastwards and out of the county. Labelled:- Basingstoke Canal The tunnel at Greywell is labelled:- Tunnel but does not show the line of canal underground. A single arrow marks the ?stop lock at Greywell, but no other locks seem to be shown on the canal right down to the River Wey in Surrey. There is a winding point at Winchfield Hurst, but no others. Rushmoor Flash is drawn, but none of the others in the area, which are as large or larger. The aqueduct across the Blackwater River is labelled:- Aqueduct

Itchen Navigation	various sections linking with the river channel, from the River Itchen about South Stoneham, just above Mansbridge, to Winchester. Labelled:- Itching River There could be one lock marked south east of St Cross.

Titchfield Canal	Clearly drawn from the River Meon at Titchfield to The Solent by Hill Head. Not labelled.

railways	When the Old Series was first published there were no railways. Railways were added on later printings by a double line with cross lines, often labelled with a version (not reliable) of the railway's name. Cuttings and embankments are shown by hachures; over and under bridges indicated; viaducts drawn with a row of v pillars and label 'Viaduct'; tunnels shown by a double dotted line and label 'Tunnel'; stations drawn by a block or two and label 'Station' or 'Railway Station'. Looking closely at the engraving it is possible to see how the engraving is added to an existing plot. The Map Collection does not have a set of sheets of one period, so it is not sensible to survey railways as a whole for the county. An example from sheet 11 is:-
London and Southampton Railway	passing on the west side of Winchester, where there is a:- Station then down the Itchen valley, 'Station' outside Bishopstoke; and on to:- Railway Station at Southampton. The line is labelled:- Southampton and London railway
	There are figures beside some lines, eg:- 80, 81, ... starting at Southampton along the Southampton and Dorchester Railway. These are probably distances from London.
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HAMPSHIRE	TOWNS
	the '21' old market towns are all shown on the map, with the following name spellings:-

	Alton (sheet 12)
	Andover (sheet 12)
	Basingstoke (sheet 12)
	Bishops Waltham (sheet 11)
	Christ Church (sheet 16)
	Fareham (sheet 11)
	Fordingbridge (sheet 15)
	Gosport (sheet 11)
	Havant (sheet 11)
	Kingsclere (sheet 12)
	Lymington (sheet 11)
	Alresford (sheet 11)
	Odiham (sheet 12)
	Petersfield (sheet 11)
	Portsmouth (sheet 11)
	Ringwood (sheet 15)
	Romsey (sheet 11)
	Southampton (sheet 11)
	Stockbridge (sheet 12)
	Whitchurch (sheet 12)
	Winchester (sheet 11)
index grid	We laid the national grid coordinate system over the maps (via the index map) which allowed some crude indexing, see the presentation in:-
	Old Hampshire Mapped
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PUBLISHING	HISTORY & SHEET NUMBERS
	The series was begun with Kent, started 1795, published 1801, and was not completed till 1873, Isle of Man. A national scheme of sheet numbering began with the second map, Sussex, 1805. The mapping changed as time went by; parishes added 1830s, lat and long scales 1840s, etc. The maps were printed from copper plate engravings, monochrome., and showed relief by hill hachuring.
	Sheet numbering and sheet size in the early Old Series 1 inch maps is a muddle. Mapping began in Kent and went round the south east coast of England, the area most at risk of invasion from France. Sheet numbering began at 1 and numbers were allocated in sequence as mapping was done. The early mapping was done on a county by county strategy, and sheet numbers and sizes were not thought of a part of a whole system for the country. As work progressed the concept of a national aspect came to dominate; mapping was no longer done on a county by county basis; sheet numbering and sizes were predicated on an overall plan. Although sheets have no formal title they have a name in the list on the index map to the series.
	The Hampshire maps were made early in the project and are numbered in a seeming haphazard way, and sheets are different sizes. On the west of the county the right borders are parallel to the Greenwich meridian, while the left border might be parallel to the Butterton Hill meridian, so the sheet shape is a trapezium, narrower at the top.

	Hampshire is covered by:-
	sheet 8; mostly Surrey; with the Aldershot, Rushmoor area and area east of Alton, Hampshire; published 1816 (Margary reproduction vol.3 plates 13, 29)(David and Charles plate 79).
	sheet 9; mostly West Sussex; area of Hampshire north east of Petersfield; published 1813 (Margary reproduction vol.3 plate 45)(David and Charles plate 87).
	sheet 10; Isle of Wight; Hampshire coast repeated but a tiny part that is not included on the other Hampshire sheets; published 1810 (the first sheet ever to use the name Ordnance Survey) (Margary reproduction vol.3 plates 73, 74)(David and Charles plate 94).
	sheet 11; Romsey, Winchester, Bishops Waltham, Petersfield, Lymington, Southampton, Fareham, Gosport, Portsmouth, Havant, Hampshire; western edge of West Sussex; published 1810 (Margary reproduction vol.3 plates 41, 42, 43, 44, 57, 58, 59, 60)(David and Charles plate 86).
	sheet 12; Kingsclere, Basingstoke, Andover, Stockbridge, Whitchurch, New Alresford, Odiham, Alton, Hampshire; part of Wiltshire and the southern edge of Berkshire; published 1817 (Margary reproduction vol.3 plates 9, 10, 11, 12, 25, 26, 27, 28)(David and Charles plate 78).
	sheet 14; mostly Wiltshire; with the area of Hampshire west of Andover and Stockbridge; published 1817 (Margary vol.3 plate 24)(David and Charles plate 77).
	sheet 15; Wiltshire; Dorset including the Christchurch area then Hampshire; Ringwood area, Hampshire; published 1811 (Margary reproduction vol.3 plates 39, 40, 55, 56)(David and Charles plate 85).
	sheet 16; Dorset including Christchurch then in Hampshire; part of the Hampshire coast west of Lymington; published 1811 (Margary reproduction vol.3 plates 70, 71, 72)(David and Charles plate 93).
	Early states of the maps were reproduced by Margary, 1981, in a series of bound volumes. And have been reproduced as sheets from 1880s states of the plates by David and Charles, 1970s-80s, sheet renumbered. There is also a volume of reproductions, with completely different sheet numbering, published by the OS, 1988.

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MAP FOLDING,	COVERS, SLIP CASES
	Old Series 1 inch maps are found folded in a variety of ways. The Map Collection has only a few examples, the Hampshire sheets with a few duplicates, so the notes below are just that, examples, not a definitive list of styles.
4x2 fold	HMCMS:FA2003.1.9 -- sheet 9 Sectioned for folding, 4x2 pieces, mounted, blue ribbon binding crudely sewn on - tatty 150 years later, folded up from bottom with map face inside, then zigzag across. The map size is:- wxh, sheet = 96.5x64cm wxh, folded = 242x323mm The outside ends are marked by pink diamonds, 1 inch square pink paper on the diagonal, pasted on the reverse of outer sections. One diamond labelled with the sheet number, eg:- 9. This end section has a location map pasted on it to show the map coverage, snipped out of the 10 miles to 1 inch index map. There is also a tab pasted on to stand up at top centre, with the sheet number, now crumpled.
marbled blue fold	HMCMS:FA1998.91 -- sheet 10 Sectioned for folding, 7x3 pieces, mounted, folded up from bottom with map face inside, then zigzag across. The end sections have blue marbled card pasted on for protection. The map size is:- wxh, sheet = 96.5x65.5cm wxh, folded = 138x220mm There is a tab pasted on to stand up at top centre, with the sheet number:- 10. This is crumpled.
James Wyld fold	HMCMS:FA2003.1.15 -- sheet 15 Sectioned for folding, 7x3 pieces, mounted, folded up from bottom with map face inside, then zigzag across. The end sections have lightly marbled end papers pasted on for protection, which continue a short way round the fold. The map is presented in a slip case which has thumb cutouts for getting the map out, and dirty marks on the map to match. The map size is:- wxh, sheet = 86.5x67cm wxh, folded = 125x226mm Pasted on the outer section, visible at the thumb cutout, is a location map, a tiny rectangle about 14x12mm, scale about 40 or 50 miles to 1 inch, with the sheet number:- 15 The stiff brown slip case is covered in brown textile and embossed in a diagonal pattern of small squares, size:- wxh, slip case = 134x232mm The slip case has a paper label, printed in a scroll cartouche:- JAMES WYLD Geographer / TO HER / Majesty. / CHARING CROSS, EAST. / 4 Doors from Trafalgar Square. / MAPS, CHARTS, GLOBES & GEOGRAPHICAL WORKS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. A central cartouche with a picture frame border has pasted on it the same minute location map with the sheet number.
C Smith fold	HMCMS:FA2001.6 -- sheet 6 Sectioned for folding, 7x3 pieces, mounted, folded up from bottom with map face inside, then zigzag across. The end sections have pale buff end papers pasted on for protection. The map is presented in a slip case which has thumb cutouts for getting the map out, and dirty marks on the map to match. The map size is:- wxh, sheet = 84x66cm wxh, folded = 126x222mm Pasted on the outer section is a location map, a tiny rectangle about 14x8mm, scale about 40 or 50 miles to 1 inch, with the sheet number:- 12 The card slip case is covered with dark green moire silk, size:- wxh, slip case = 133x230mm Pasted on the slip case is a paper label with a greek key border, printed in top and bottom borders:- SOLD BY C. SMITH & SON / MAPSELLERS. 172, STRAND, LONDON. A tiny location map is pasted in the centre of the label, and various owners have added their own remarks:- Hants (N.E.) / O.S. Mudge. / 1817. / 1 Mile to 1 Inch Medstead H. W. THompson / Medsted / Dec. 1941 903.1/48
	Other examples are sectioned in 4x5, 4x4 pieces. In every instance the map has to be completely unfolded to be read.
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REFERENCES
	Mudge, William & Colby, Thomas: 1811: Account of the Trigonometrical Survey, ...: (London)
	Owen, Tim & Pilbeam, Elaine: 1992: Ordnance Survey; map makers to Britain since 1791: Ordnance Survey (Southampton, Hampshire) & HMSO:: ISBN 0 31 00498 8 (pbk)
	Hinton, David A & Insole, A N, Dr: 1988: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight & Ordnance Survey Historical Guides: Philip, Gregory & Ordnance Survey:: ISBN 0 540 01137 1
	Two particularly accessible books about the history of Ordnance Survey maps are:-
	Harley, J B (intro) & O'Donoghue, Yolande (intro): 1981: Old Series Ordnance Survey Maps of England and Wales: Margary, Harry (Lympne Castle, Kent): vol.3: ISBN 0 903541 03 3
	Harley, J B: 1975: Ordnance Survey Maps; a descriptive manual: Ordnance Survey (Southampton, Hampshire)
also see:-
	related map group -- OS 1870s New Series
	Old Hampshire Mapped
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ITEMS	in HMCMS Map Collection (scanned item in bold)
	HMCMS:FA1998.91 -- map (sheet 10)
	HMCMS:FA1998.92 -- map
	HMCMS:FA1998.243 -- map
	HMCMS:FA1998.244 -- map
	HMCMS:FA1998.245 -- map
	HMCMS:FA2001.6 -- map
	HMCMS:FA2003.1.8 -- map (sheet 8)
	HMCMS:FA2003.1.9 -- map (sheet 9)
	HMCMS:FA2003.1.11 -- map (sheet 11)
	HMCMS:FA2003.1.12 -- map (sheet 12)
	HMCMS:FA2003.1.14 -- map (sheet 14)
	HMCMS:FA2003.1.15 -- map (sheet 15)
	HMCMS:FA2003.1.16 -- map (sheet 16)
	HMCMS:FA2003.8 -- index map
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	All Old Hampshire Mapped Resources