Blome's Hampshire 1673, coast line

	Coast line Blome's Hampshire 1673

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Coast line	The county of Hampshire is bounded on the south by the sea.This boundary does not change much with changes of local or national politics! but it is subject to change by development and less so by nature. Rivers, the sea, and winds change the shape of the land; sometimes slowly, occasionally suddenly and dramatically. The sea area on Richard Blome's map has shading lines here and there, perhaps just to make it less 'empty'. One sea area is labelled - The Solent, called:- PART OF YE BRITISH SEA The coast line is shaded, pretty crudely. The shading is taken into harbours and river mouths. Mudflat or sandbank areas are stippled, and:- The Mackett is labelled south of Hayling Island. A few coastal features are labelled, headlands etc, eg:- Hengist bury head Black cliffe Rames head Some harbours are labelled, eg:- Hamble haven Titchfeilde hav. If the mapped coastlines are to be compared it might be helpful to lay them over each other. You might make each coastline conform to a common grid calculated for each map from data points over the whole county (this is the process used for other comparisons in this project). Or, you might calculate a common underlying structure just from recognizable fixed points along the coast: castles don't move, towns centres might shift a little, ... Do allow for gross as well as slight errors in the map maker's plotting.

Map HMCMS:FA1991.9

Coast line