THE / Traveller's Guide: / OR, A MOST / EXACT DESCRIPTION / OF THE / ROADS / OF / ENGLAND. / BEING / Mr. OGILBY'S / ACTUAL SURVEY, / And Mensuration by the Wheel, / ... / LONDON, Printed by T. Ilive for Abel Swall, and Sold by Tim. Child at the White- / Hart, and R, Knaplock at the Angel and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1699.

ITINIRARUM ANGLIAE / OR A / BOOK of the ROADS / OF / ENGLAND and WALES, &C. / ...

The Traveller's Guide: / OR / A Most Exact Description / OF THE / ROADS / OF / ENGLAND. / BEING / Mr. OGILBY'S / ACTUAL SURVEY, / And Mensuration by the Wheel, / OF THE / / Great ROADS from LONDON / To all the Considerable / Cities and Towns in England and Wales, / Together with the / Cross-Roads from one City or Eminent Town / to another. / Wherein is shewn the Distance from Place to Place, and plain / Directions given to find the Way, by setting down every Town, Village, River, / Brook, Bridge, Common, Forest, Wood, Copse, Heath, Moor, &c. that occur / in Pasing the Roads. / And for the better Illustration thereof, are added TABLES, / wherein the Names of Places, with their Distances, are set down in a / Column, in so plain a manner, that meer Strangers may travel all over / England without any other Guide. / LONDON: Printed for ...

William Ra[nsb]orn July 1715

THE PREFACE

THis Descripition of England was undertaken by the Express Command of King Charles II. and it was at his Expence that Mr. Ogilby with great exactness perform'd an Actual Survey and Mensuration by the Wheel, of all the Principal Roads of England; which having with indefatigable Pains and Industry finished, and Delineated the Roads in a Hundred Maps, to which were prefixed Descriptions of all the Places he passed thro', he Dedicated them to his Patron, that Judicious Prince, and Publish'd the whole in a large Volume in Folio, A. D. 1674.

The Work was Received with General Applause, but the Charge of Engraving the Maps had so much Enhanced the Price of the Book, that it came but few Hands, and especially the Bulk of it rendered it unfit for the use it seems to have been purposely Compiled, I mean the Direction of Travellers. Wherefore, since it is on all Hands granted to be a Work exceeding useful to that purpose, it is hoped, That the reducing it into this Pocket-Volume, will be an acceptable Service to those Persons whose Occasions require them to Travel.

And because the Reader may possibly imagine, That the Book is Abridged in Substance as well as in Bulk: it is necessary to assure him, That the Descriptions here are Verbally the same as in the Folio; except only that in this Edition the Style is rendered more Intelligible as well as Concise, and several Abbreviations (hereunder Explained) are made use of to bring the Matter into its due Bounds. Thus the Reader has in this small Volume Mr. Ogilby's Descriptions of the Roads of England entire. Nor are the Maps totally wanting for the Tables at the latter end contain also the all the Words (as Names of Places and Directions for Travelling) that are set down in the Maps, which being Ranged in Columns, and the Distances marked, render these Tables as useful as the Maps: And upon the whole, the Traveller is here furnished at small Expence, with a Guide that will conduct him through all the Principal Roads of England.

Great Care has been taken in Correcting the Press: So that we hope no Capital Faults have escaped.

Note, The Distances are all along reckoned in measur'd Miles and Furlongs, beginning from the Standard at Cornhill; so that the Reader must not be surprized when he finds the Number of Miles set down here, exceed the Common Computation: For Example, from London to York are computed but 150 Miles, whereas by Measure the Distance is 192 Miles. And Computation being very uncertain it must be granted, that no Exactness could be observed, but adhering constantly to the Standard-Mile of 1760 Yards, which contains Eight Furlongs.

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A New Map of the Roads of / ENGLAND / Shewing the Reputed distances from one town to another / Note that the market Townes are marked thus +

BRITTISH SEA

THE CHANNEL

Thames R.

Severn R.

SURRY

HAMP S.

Winchester

Aulton

Worting

From London to Plymouth

Sobell, Dava & Andrewes, William J H: 1998: Illustrated Longitude: Fourth Estate (London):: ISBN 1 85702 714 0

OGILBY'S / Traveller's Guide; or / Gentlemans Pocket Companion / through all the Direct and Principal Cross Roads / in ENGLAND & WALES. / Shewing all the Towns scituated on ye / Roads, their distances from each other / in computed Miles; also ye distances / of each Market Town from Lond'n / in measurd Miles.

London printed for Tho: Bowles near the Chapterhouse in St. Pauls

Explanation

The counties are express'd in Italic Capitals, as MIDDLESEX.

The Market Towns are express'd in Roman Print as Brentford.

The villages are Engraved in Round Hand.

The Figures placed in the Road shew the distance of one / Town from another in Computed Miles.

The Roman Figures placed on the side of each Road / shew the distance of each Market Town from London. / in measured miles.

THE ENGLISH CHANNEL

HAMP S.

WINCHESTER

Basingstoke

Portsmouth

Otterborn

The Western Road

to Southampton

: 1699: Traveller's Guide: Swall, Abel & Child, Tim & Knaplock, R (London)

: 1712 (2nd edn): Traveller's Guide: Bray, Willam (London)

: 1730 (? edn): Traveller's Guide: Bowles, Thomas (London)