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private collection:-
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Railway map, colour printed, Black's Road and Railway Travelling Map of
England, scale about 14 miles to 1 inch, engraved by S Hall, published by A and
C Black, Edinburgh, Lothian, early 1870s.
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map feature:-
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colour printed & sectioned for folding & mounted & folded & card
cover & title cartouche & plain cartouche & up is N & scale line
& lat and long scales & lat and long grid & table of symbols &
sea tinted & coast line & rivers & relief & hill hachuring &
county & settlements & roads & railways & canals |
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inscription:- |
embossed -on- cover
BLACK'S / ROAD & RAILWAY / TRAVELLING MAP / OF / ENGLAND / 4s. 6d.
-- gold on dark green; illustrated with a 2-2-2 railway locomotive and a stage
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inscription:- |
printed -on- upper right in a plain cartouche
ENGLAND / AND / WALES
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inscription:- |
printed -on- bottom
Edinburgh, Published by A. & C. Black. / Engraved by S Hall, Bury Str.
Bloomsbury
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scale line:-
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50 miles = 88.8 mm |
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dimension:- |
wxh,folded in cover = 12x15cm |
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wxh, sheet = 66.5x87cm |
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wxh, map = 570x820mm |
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scale = 1 to 900000 ? (1 to 906162 from scale line) |
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Map Group -- Black 1870s -- with Research Notes
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town names:-
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Hampshire
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Hampshire
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map name
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modern name
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Alton
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Alton
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Andover
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Andover
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Basingstoke
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Basingstoke
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Bishops Waltham
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Bishops Waltham
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Christ Church
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Christchurch
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Fareham
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Fareham
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Fordingbridg
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Fordingbridge
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Gosport
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Gosport
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Havant
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Havant
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Kingsclare
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Kingsclere
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Lymington
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Lymington
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Alresford
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Alresford
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Odiham
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Odiham
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Petersfield
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Petersfield
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Portsmouth
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Portsmouth
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Ringwood
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Ringwood
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Romsey
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Romsey
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Southampton
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Southampton
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Stockbridge
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Stockbridge
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Whitchurch
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Whitchurch
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Winchester
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Winchester
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| MN: 7.10.2003 |
