Map Collection

Bowles 1782
private collection:- 
Strip map, road map, uncoloured engraving, part of the London to the Lands End road, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published in Bowles's Post Chaise Companion, by Carington Bowles, 69 St Paul's Churchyard, London, 1782.
vol.1 plate 45/45 - from London; via Staines, Middlesex; Bagshot, Surrey; through Blackwater, Basingstoke, Whitchurch, Andover, and Middle Wallop, Hampshire; then Salisbury and Beyond, Wiltshire.
map feature:-  not coloured & north point & up is destination & rivers & relief & hill hachuring & county & settlements & roads & road distances
dimension:-  wxh, sheet = 16.5x15.5cm
wxh, map = 150x136mm
scale = 1 to 230000 ? (rough estimate from road distances)

  Map Group -- Bowles 1782 -- with Research Notes

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MN: 27.8.2003