Map Group SHEPHERD & SUTTON 1840s
Sutton 1840s
Descriptive Pocket Map, County of Hants ie Hampshire, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Shepherd and Sutton, Foster Lane, and R Groombridge, Paternoster Row, London, 1840s.
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Research Notes
Map Group SHEPHERD & SUTTON 1840s
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Sutton 1840s |
Descriptive Pocket Map, County of Hants ie Hampshire, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Shepherd and Sutton, Foster Lane, and R Groombridge, Paternoster Row, London, 1840s. |
| The map is reversed out, printed cream on brown; it has the coat of arms of Winchester. It is on a larger two sided sheet with descriptive text about the county. 1844 has been suggested. | |
| inscription:- | printed -on- card cover Price 9 Pence - See other side. / HAMPSHIRE. / SHEPHERD & SUTTON'S / DESCRIPTIVE / POCKET MAPS, / OF THE SEPARATE / Counties of England and Wales; / FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME. / LONDON: / SHEPHERD & SUTTON, AND / R. GROOMBRIDGE. / Sold by all Booksellers in the Kingdom. |
| inscription:- | printed -on- top of map in a decorative cartouche COUNTY OF HANTS / SHEPHERD & SUTTON'S / New Series / of / DESCRIPTIVE / COUNTY MAPS. |
| scale line:- | 16 miles = 38.5 mm |
| map feature:- | title cartouche & north point & scale line & lat and long scales & sea shaded & rivers & canals & county & hundreds (? numbered areas) & settlements & roads & distances from London (?) & railways (London to Southampton, plus branch to Gosport, could be added to plate) |
| dimension:- | wxh, map = 214x155 mm |
| scale = 1 to 690000 ? (1 to 668818 from scale line) | |
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